Second keyboard to recognized by game

How can be this controlled in that simulator? Can HIDmacros be used with this application?
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Zackattack5796
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Second keyboard to recognized by game

Post by Zackattack5796 » 06 Feb 2015, 05:03

I want to have a second keyboard in order to bind game commands to them, so the game needs to recognize the second keyboard as different keys in order for me to bind the commands to those keys. Is this possible? And how would I do it?

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Re: Second keyboard to recognized by game

Post by reapersremorse » 12 Feb 2015, 03:02

this is what im trying to figure out as well :/

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Re: Second keyboard to recognized by game

Post by admin » 12 Feb 2015, 08:38

I'm not aware of any game that supports recognition of different keyboards - this is why HIDmacros exists.
In some games (that use classic windows API to read commands from keyboard) you can use hidmacros to read keypress from separate keyboard, convert it to some "regular" keyboard shortcut (using combinations with ctrl, shift, whatever) and send it to game. In a game you configure keyboard commands to react on those combinations.
Better way than keyboard shortcuts is use some game API, but this is supported only for some flight simulators (FS9, FSX, Xplane).
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Re: Second keyboard to recognized by game

Post by reapersremorse » 13 Feb 2015, 00:36

thank you.
if what you say is true then someone would have to rewrite the driver for a certain keyboard so all the keys on sid keyboard would have a different putput per press :/
kinda wish i could program lol

it would be amazing if hidmacros had a driver which turned all keys into hkeys or somethings
ex: a = ha--b = hb etc etc

if that could happen then people could download a generic driver and use it instead of the factory driver for said keyboard.
this would be a lot of work but in the end it would be wonderful.

i just bought the Logitech G13 Programmable Gameboard with LCD Display ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001NE ... UTF8&psc=1 )
it will be arriving tomorrow morning and i plan to use it for all my gaming needs

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