Very nice programmable keyboard

[Cezar11]

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=PKB-078-PB&cat=KYB

 

just got one of these... it's cheap ( $49 ) but has 78 keys that can be programmed with either ascii or key codes .. and you can do macros also ( left ctrl key down, then press "a" ,left ctrl key up then press F5 etc..) I plan on making a cdu interface.. just thought i'd spread the word on this nifty little device.

[tintifaxl]

This look really nice. UFC and CDU on that keyboard would be feasable. Thanks for sharing.

[Cezar11]

I plan on using using it sideways on my right side.. I already have a good printout of the CDU keyboard and I plan on cutting out each letter to put on the keys. ( the keys have clear covers that come off so you can put whatever you want on the key )

 

the way i'm going to mount it, it will be a 6 row by 13 column keyboard.... should be very nice :)

[agrasyuk]

Nice find. Keep in mind however that DCS can be very iffy about keyboard macros. You will need some way to explicitly send wait statements between key press and key release. So if you doing Ctrl modified key it will look like:

KeyDown ctrl, wait 15milisecond, keydown X. , wait, key up X and so on. Otherwise DCS will not see the macros. Try it with regular programmable device you might have (Logitech g keyboards, nostomo pad, etc)

[Trubshaw]

Good point agrasyuk. I had to put a delay like that in when programming my X-Keys keyboard for DCS to work properly.

 

Would love to see a photo of your key board when you have got it set up Cezar11

 

Mine looks like this for Black Shark

 

[cltmmm]

Did you test if it actually works in Win 7 x64? I bought a high end Cherry POS Keyboard (http://www.cherrycorp.com/english/keyboards/POS/SPOS_Rows_Columns/index.htm - Look at all those buttons!) and it only worked in BS in 32bit mode. I have no idea why. I spent weeks with tech support before giving up. It is gathering dust on the floor right now.

[agrasyuk]

Cltm, I'd guess your macros didn't contain the delay ;)

[Feuerfalke]

I doubt that it will be easier with so many buttons.

 

X-Keys hardware is very nice.

 

You can place these on your monitor:

http://www.piengineering.com/xkeys/xk16stick.php

 

This one is nice as well:

http://www.piengineering.com/xkeys/xk12Joystick.php

[cltmmm]

No, I had the delays and everything else in there. The problem was phantom keystrokes that the Cherry POS Keyboards inject in the stream. They also press the keys out of order of what you actually have programmed. The tech support admitted that this was a design decision and that for low-performance, e.g. POS systems, it does not matter. In the case with BS2 that is reading the full keyboard queue with great precision, it screws it up.

[Cezar11]

it works fine in x64.. you need a 32bit O/S to program it.. but once that's done... you can take it anywhere... the x-key stuff is way too $$$... i'd build my own first with a couple 32 button usb game controllers..