I am working on a macro – that can maybe evolve into a plugin – that can enter latin1 characters on windows. I have trouble with the unicode plugin. So I wanted to try this simpler approach. On windows: Hold down the left alt. Press keypad 0 Press keypad 2 Press keypad 4 Press keypad 8 Releas…

So I actually got it to work. Thank you all for rubber ducking :slight_smile: latin1 macro that works committed 08:51PM - 13 Nov 17 UTC (UTC) [lldata] lldata …

I am hoping that someone reads this, since I am all alone in this thread. But it turns out that my latin1 macro only almost works. It works in notepad, but in Outlook and IntelliJ IDEA it doesn’t work. The strange thing is that doing the sequence hold left alt + numeric 0248 + release, works in a…

Have you tried it using pressKey(Key_LeftAlt) instead of pressRawKey(Key_LeftAlt)? Maybe sending the extra report would help.

Thank you! That did the trick. I only had to make the change for the alt key. I left the raw for the numbers. What is the difference between pressKey and pressRawKey? And what do you mean about the extra key report?

pressKey() causes an extra HID report to be sent after a modifier is pressed, whereas pressRawKey() just adds it to the report. Some operating systems (or programs?) seem to fail to apply the modifier to keycodes that become active in the same report as the modifier (probably applying the modifier a…

So do I need the sendKeyboardReport() if I use pressKey?

It worked for a minute there last night. But when I got to work this morning it didn’t work anymore :confused: But manually doing the combo always seems to work, so the problem must be in my macro. So I am going to need a little more help on how to best express alt 0248 as a macro. This is my cur…

I see you changed the delay to just 1 ms. Maybe that’s too short? I would try changing the delay to 10 or 100, but you probably don’t need any delay between pressKey() and sendKeyboardReport() calls. If that doesn’t work, you could try to make it even more like actual keypresses by sending several…

I already tried 10 and 100 ms delays. That didn’t work - just made it slow and shaky. If I type fast it would mess up the ascii codes and different characters will show up! But I’ll try the keyboard reports and see how that works. So a keyboard report is what is sent when you hold down a key? I wo…

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lasse (lasse) November 13, 2017, 8:10pm 2

Just found this thread. That seems to hold the solution to my infinite ø problem
I’ll just try that out. But I’d still like to feedback on the generic latin1 macro.

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