Cross-locale reprograming of second kb into a hotkeys kb

[Mik Urrey]

Hello folks!
I had a goal to reprogram my second keyboard into a hotkeys keyboard without 3rd party apps.
It was not so easy cause I got errors using lmc_send_keys function. I don't know what is the reason, but seems RU locale is one.
On the board I found some posts about lmc_send_input and this way works fine for me.
Here's an example.

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local pathWithFilename="D:\\LuaMacros\\samples\\";
local kbID =  '226465';

lmc.minimizeToTray = true
lmc_minimize()
clear()
lmc_print_devices()
-- assign logical name to macro keyboard
lmc_device_set_name('MACROS', kbID);
local codes = {
      ["ctrl"]  = 17,
      ["alt"]   = 18,
      ["shift"] = 16,
      ["enter"] = 13,
      ["win"]   = 91,
      ["tab"]   = 9,
      ["space"] = 32,
      ["back"]  = 8,
      ["app"]   = 93,
      ["left"]  = 37,
      ["right"] = 39,
      ["up"]    = 38,
      ["down"]  = 40,
      ["insert"]= 45,
      ["delete"]= 46,
      ["home"]  = 36,
      ["end"]   = 35,
      ["pup"]   = 33,
      ["esc"]   = 27,
      ["plus"]  = 187,
      ["screen"]= 255,
};
-- define callback for whole device
lmc_set_handler('MACROS', function(button, direction)
  if (direction == 1) then
     return
  end  -- ignore down
  local config = {};
  for line in io.lines(pathWithFilename .. "all.txt") do
    local data = {};
      for part in string.gmatch(line, "[^%s]+") do
        data[#data+1] = part;
      end;
    config[tonumber(data[1])] = data[2];
  end;
  if type(config[button]) == "string" then
      print('Found: ' .. button .. ' = ' .. config[button]);

      for s in string.gmatch(config[button], "[^+]+") do
           if type(codes[s]) == "number" then
               k = codes[s];
           else
               k = string.byte(s);
           end;
           lmc_send_input(k, 0, 0);
      end;

      for s in string.gmatch(config[button], "[^+]+") do
           if type(codes[s]) == "number" then
               k = codes[s];
           else
               k = string.byte(s);
           end;
           lmc_send_input(k, 0, 2);
      end;
  else
      print('Not yet assigned: ' .. button)
  end
end);

Before you try to use it, you must set your own pathWithFilename (directory contains your script) and place an "all.txt" file into the directory.

all.txt example:

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17 ctrl+alt+A Ctrl
13 ctrl+enter Enter
18 ctrl+shift+I Web inspector

(numeric key code /space/ hotkey /space/ comment)

When you start the script you will see a devices list. Get your keyboard ID from the list and set kbID.
Restart the script and enjoy

All codes of all unassigned keys will be printed in LuaMacros console while typing.
Hotkeys adding into the txt file works on-the-fly.
You can run the script on system startup using a shortcut like this:
D:\LuaMacros\LuaMacros.exe "D:\LuaMacros\samples\my.lua" -r

[admin]

Nice one.
You could read the file on script start and keep the definition in memory to not re-open file on every key press. But then you would need to re-run script to reflect changes in file.

[Mik Urrey]

Yes, I did it for ability to apply config without restart.
Performance losses are imperceptible cause the file size is very very small.

Thank you for this great utility. I hope the project will grow and you will add more functions allowing to make portable and configurable scripts