Double click for CapsLock?

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I occasionally use caps lock, and so I thought it’d be nice to toggle it via OneShot. This works:

OSM(LeftShift)…OSM(RightShift)
and I also use ActiveModColor along side it

but it’s not exactly what I want. If I double click on either shift it does the OneShot+mod color thing just fine, but it also ‘capitalizes’ non-alphabetic characters (, . / - and the numerics). Is there a way to set it up so that a double click of shift leaves me in caps lock just like in OneShot, but only for a-z?

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Do you want to use Shift in a one-shot mode? Or were you trying one-shot only for the dobule-tap locking behaviour?

If the latter, then TapDance can help, and I’ll happily provide an example. If the former… that’s a bit harder to accomplish, as there is no ready-made solution just yet (but I guess a combination of tap-dance and oneshot could work…)

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I like OneShot for other things, but specific to caps lock I was only using shift+OneShot for double tap locking behavior, at least so far. If you can provide an example that’d be great. Thanks!

eric

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void tapDanceAction(uint8_t tapDanceIndex, byte row, byte col, 
                    uint8_t tapCount, 
                    kaleidoscope::TapDance::ActionType tapDanceAction) {

  switch (tapDanceIndex) {
  case SHIFT_CAPS: 
    {
      static bool isCapsOn;

      if (tapDanceAction == kaleidoscope::TapDance::Release) {
        Macros.play(MACRO(T(CapsLock)));

        if (isCapsOn) {
          isCapsOn = false;
          return;
        }
        isCapsOn = true;
      }

      return tapDanceActionKeys(tapCount, tapDanceAction,
                                Key_LeftShift, Key_CapsLock);
    }
  }
}

When you press this once and hold it, it will act as a LeftShift. Tap it twice, and it will become CapsLock. To make it possible to turn Caps Lock off with a single tap, we remember if it turned on, and regardless of tapCount, turn it off if it was on.

Mind you, this is untested, you may have to adjust it a little.

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This is where I plug my plugin, which does light up the keys, but which is triggered by a press of Key_CapsLock instead of a double tap of a shift key. It may or may not be close enough to the functionality you want. I’m not sure how it would behave if you used TapDance to send the Key_CapsLock event instead of binding it somewhere in your keymap, but if you try it and it works in combination with TapDance report back!

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I’m finally getting around to trying this.

Newbie Arduino question: I’m on Windows, where do I put your code once I download it from Github? I see C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\examples\ but don’t see a keyboardio directory anywhere obvious. Do I put something in ‘additional board manager urls’?

eric

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It goes under Arduino/keyboardio/hardware/avr/libraries, which is a directory that will be created when you follow the Kaleidoscope build instructions. I’m also new at Arduino, so I don’t know how the “additional board manager urls” configuration would work.