problem with acute accent dead key in spanish keyboard

[jcfifo]

First of all, thank you very much for this software, it's wonderful to have to chance to work with more than one keyboard!

I'm not sure this can be called a bug, more like something not implemented yet

When HID macros is active the acute accent dead key in spanish keyboard stops working.

In normal use, striking acute accent and then <a> results in <á>, whereas acute accent followed by <e> results in <é>. But when HIDmacros is active striking acute accent results is two accents <``>, not waiting for the vowel to be pressed.

Nor can I create an action which sends a keyboard sequence with accented vowels like <á>

Is there any easy way to fix this behaviour by myself? Or have you any plan to work on this kind of issues of non-english keyboards?

I use a fresh copy of ver 2.2 on win XP SP3 with 1 ps2 and 1 usb keyboard

Thank you very much!

[admin]

Actually the same happens with Czech dead chars. I have tested at Windows XP and Win 7.
At XP dead chars behaves correctly, at W7 I experienced the same problem you describe.
I already tried to have a look but unfortunately Winspector tool that I use to see how messages are processed doesn't work at Win7. And I didn't find similar tool.
So conclusion is: I know about this issue but takes some time to fix. But feel free to keep asking me to not forget

[jcfifo]

Hi, it's a yearly reminder.

I managed a solution with AutoHotkey but it's not totally functional and stable.

Thank you very much.

[Lebenita]

Here''s another reminder (notice how the apostrophe in ""here''s"", which is a dead key on my layout, got doubled on single press, just as the quotes?).

Anyway, thanks a bunch for HID macros, which seems to be a really unique piece of software. I would be quite happy if I got it to work with my layout.

Thanks and all the best
Lebenita

[jcfifo]

Hi, finally I found a stable solution in http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?t=30829 (the .zip at the end, requires registration in the forum) which is based on interception library http://oblita.com/interception.html. I use it combined with AutoHotkey.

I suggest the author to take a look on interception library sources, maybe he can find something interesting for HID macros.

Anyway, than you very much for HID macros, it has been very useful for me.

[admin]

Thanks, will have a look

[cristiano_pruneri]

I'm not sure if it is a possible, "fast" workaround, but on my system (an XP sp3) this problem has disappeared when I decided to switch to a en-US keyboard layout at start-up (I had to to convince some shortcuts to work in my drawing software).

It's true, it's a bit of a pain to have to change back to the spanish layout manually, on a per-application base, but may be useful for who does not like to fiddle with AHK.

[haboots]

I mean i dont know if its usefull to anyone but...
I made a little python script that kills hidmacros and starts it again after a few seconds.
Then i mapped it to a hidmacro macro into the accent key.


**PYHON CODE
import time
import subprocess
import os

os.system('TASKKILL /f /IM HidMacros.exe')
time.sleep(3)
subprocess.call("C:/Users/USER/Documents/HidMacros/HidMacros.exe")

It gets some getting used to it, because you hace to press is twice. Once for killing the program and another to put it on. But its maybe usefull

[LeonardoPangaio]

Hello everybody

First of all, I would like to thank the developer for the excellent work and product developed.

I'm just here to remind him to revisit this topic.

I'm a keyboard user pt-br abnt 2 and when I need to use the accent, I can't keep the application open.

[Tomas_santosm]

Hello everyone,

I´m using the same keyboard, just reminding of this problem if anyone has an alternative solution, thanks!