Support for modifiers

[cameri]

Can we have support for modifiers such as shift, ctrl and alt?

We could then bind combinations like SHIFT+F1 or CTRL+F3.

[james-fowler]

It should be possible. You can bind a shift key and a regular key to two different G-keys and that works, so there aren't any obvious weird shift state issues. However, the mechanism for mapping would need to be enhanced. As it happens, I've already been working on that, with the goal of being able to map keys to more complex actions (multiple keystrokes, macros, python scripts, ...). Adding support for modifiers should be fairly simple.

[james-fowler]

Still fairly primitive, but functional : added an "mbind" command, similar to bind, so you can say

mbind G16 KEY_LEFTSHIFT+KEY_F1

The mbind command is probably temporary - I'll probably just roll the functionality into bind once it's tested a bit.
Code is at [https://github.com/james-fowler/g13]

[cameri]

Awesome! I'll be testing it over the weekend 👍

[james-fowler]

Great, let me know how it works for you. Just to be fair, there is another option : Paul Healy implemented similar support for modifiers, you can find more about it at #11 . I probably should have used his as a starting point, but I didn't notice it so I ended up duplicating effort. That said, I've also implemented some additional stuff like writing text to the LCD and maintaining multiple keymapping profiles. Sometime soon I'll add support for mapping the G keys to more than just sending keystrokes, like sending signals out a pipe/socket, changing profiles, etc... might even add an option to run python scripts directly, although I'm not sure that's a great idea (writing out to a pipe/socket, combined with reading from /tmp/g13-0, makes it possible to do really cool python scripts with the G13, without the overhead and complexity of embedding a python interpreter in g13d...)

[james-fowler]

Did you get a chance to test it (https://github.com/james-fowler/g13) yet?

[cameri]

Thanks for the heads up.

I just tried it and so far it works! I am playing Tibia at the moment and
the hotkeys work just fine. The keys show fine in xev (X events).

And good job refactoring everything into classes by the way :)

Do you have a list of features you'd like to have?

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Did you get a chance to test it (https://github.com/james-fowler/g13) yet?

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