I think there is a keyboard shortcut to enter keyboard mode, b/c I accidentally activate it sometimes.
my entire workflow is based on the keyboard (I use hyprland), getting used to keyboard shortcuts makes doing things sooo much faster.
for @cymplecy: what does each button do? is it more of a macro pad than an actual keyboard? or is it more like a stenotype keyboard? I'm reading about it on Wikipedia but I'm not really sure what the use case is.
It has shift, tab and ctrl. I haven't programmed up fn keys yet but they can be
Each key pressed gives a num (1,2,4,8,16 or 32) and a keyWait reporter returns the sum of all keys pressed
The main loop then decodes the key values read, into equivalent keyboard presses.
The use case is to leave right hand on mouse and left on MicroWriter instead of moving right hand to and from mouse to kbd and back again
very fascinating, and great work btw!
25=32>26, so Engelbart put the whole alphabet on his keyboard. When he was just entering bulk text he used the keyboard, but when correcting errors in the text he didn't want to take his hand off the mouse. I don't know what he did with the other six keyboard chords but I'm guessing one of them was a shift prefix.
Technically, because "no keys" won't produce a symbol, the total number of combinations is only 31.
Oh, okay! I had kind of assumed that shift wasn't on there because, at least for the device described by the manual provided, capital letters were obtained without using "shift" (instead there was a different method).
Does your keyboard work exactly the same as the device described in the manual you provided (just curious).
No
That was a standalone device with a display.
I'm following (mostly) this way of using it