0
I have researched and tested, the various popularly recommended software, for keyboard re-mapping:
SharpKeys, KeyTweak, Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator, etc...
Of those that were able to detect my D-Pad key presses, they apparently still could not differentiate between the D-Pad, and the traditional directional Arrow Keys (Up, Down, Left, Right).
I recently got a new Keyboard (Logitech K600) that has a D-Pad near its top-right corner.
Image: Logitech K600 (5)
In addition to the 4 arrow directions, the center D-Pad key is linked to the [Enter] button.
For my purposes, those keys are redundant and not very useful, at least when used with my main laptop. Thus, I'd like to remap them to something like:
-> Volume Up/Down - Forward/Back - Play/Pause (Enter)
At the moment, I seem to be unable to do this, without also remapping the traditional arrow keys (and Enter button) at the same time.
For example, when using SharpKeys, KeyTweak... exactly the same Key Code is returned, when pressing either "UP on Arrow Keys", or "UP on D-Pad".
Is there any known way that I can have the D-Pad and its linked (Arrow/Enter) traditional Keyboard buttons, be differentiated from each other? Thank you.
[Edit] Just to add: I'm aware that in my situation, this particular keyboard does have dedicated buttons for Volume Up/Down, etc... However, those are also at the Function Keys (F11, F12), which I use very frequently, and opted to override these Function keys as default.
Either way, the problem still remains, which is lack of flexibility in remapping these redundant/linked keys.
Andrew Davis
Posted 2019-10-16T12:31:05.467
Reputation: 1