Creating a Model 100 layout with Chrysalis without having a keyboard

[Qwertz]

Hello,
i wanted to play around with Chrysalis to look at different options for the QWERTZ layout on Model 100 but i seem unable to do it with Chrysalis as long as i have not yet received a physical keyboard. That’s a bummer. Is there a way to circumvent it?

[alfalfasprossen (Johannes Becker)]

I don’t think it’s possible at the moment. Your best bet would be to use keyboard-layout-editor.com for playing around. In the Model01 layout thread there’s the link to the template:
Keyboard Layout Editor

As well as a lot of inspiration:

Share your layout

Because more and more people start to receive and customise their keyboards, a thread that collects people’s layouts others can learn or borrow from seems like a good idea. So here we go! Share what you have - or plan to have! For visual representation, one can use the online Keyboard Layout Editor by forking the blank template. This is only for visuals, mind you, but a picture of a layout can tell a lot more, a lot easily, than looking at code or reading its description.

[algernon (Gergely Nagy)]

Indeed, this is not possible yet. It’s an often requested feature for Chrysalis, and it is on our radar, but it requires substantial changes in Chrysalis’ architecture. We’re slowly refactoring Chrysalis to make it possible to work with a keyboard “offline”, but we’re not quite there yet, and arriving there will take some time still.

I have no ETA for the feature yet, but anyone interested in our progress can subscribe to Chrysalis#377. Once we get nearer, I’ll be posting updates there.