Windows 10: Custom keyboard layout - add special keys using dead and live keys

Discus and support Custom keyboard layout - add special keys using dead and live keys in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; I'm using MSKLC to make a custom keyboard for an internal purpose. what i was missing is when pressing certain key two times consecutively without... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by Mahesh Uddama, Jul 4, 2020.

  1. Custom keyboard layout - add special keys using dead and live keys


    I'm using MSKLC to make a custom keyboard for an internal purpose. what i was missing is when pressing certain key two times consecutively without space get a new unicode character. in the context we use it is harmless to have specific string lets say 2 characters of characters converted another single unicode character.

    here i don't want to use modifier keys such as Caps, Shift, Alt or Ctrl. the whole point of asking this question is the same.

    so far i tried with dead key mapping. ex: assigned to VK_A

    main < key > = a in dead section of the same i assigned

    < base > = a

    < composite > = ã // U+00E3

    so the problem now is while im getting ã if i do key stroke of VK_A two times. but i cannot get the standard 'a' from VK_A.

    how to keep the main key while having a dead key also ?

    or how to make compose keys ?


    :)
     
    Mahesh Uddama, Jul 4, 2020
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  2. lqlaow Win User

    US International keyboard layout AltGr in Windows 10 with no dead keys

    I use a QWERTY keyboard, in the international variant, in order to have the accentuated letters of the european languages. One Problem of this layout is that:
    Xorg: Using the US International (altgr-intl variant) Keyboard Layout | Shinobus Secrets

    So I decided to create a layout based on this international version, but without the two dead keys. It is very simple:
    -I installed Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator 1.4 by microsoft
    Download Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator 1.4 from Official Microsoft Download Center
    which gives this:

    Custom keyboard layout - add special keys using dead and live keys [​IMG]

    -I remove the option of those 2 red keys to be dead keys and I create the layout by copying the european dead keys to the keys `, ~, ', ".
    One problem is that the key "/' has already a dead key by default, so I moved those to SHIFT+CTRL
    Custom keyboard layout - add special keys using dead and live keys [​IMG]


    - - - Updated - - -
    This layout is called
    États-Unis International - AltGr touches mortes
    and is available here
    https://multiup.org/download/1152d04...dbd1/euiatm.7z
    Jheberg
    Download euiatm.7z - MirrorAce
    Download euiatm.7z

    On my computer, this keyboard did not work with the french language pack, until I installed the language pack for american english.

    So I think that in order to use this layout without the american language pack, the layout must be exported for french keyboard. If case this is right, I upload such a variant here
    Download euiatmfr.7z
    Download euiatmfr.7z - MirrorAce
    Jheberg
    https://multiup.org/download/8bb8ddb...7d/euiatmfr.7z
     
    lqlaow, Jul 4, 2020
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  3. Problems with dead keys on MKLC

    Hello,

    I’m using the Keyboard Layout Creator 1.4 to create custom keyboard layouts that fit my typographic requirements. For the field that I study I need a lot of characters that aren’t available on the windows keyboard. I use dead keys to exploit a wider range
    of characters, but some of theese don't work out the way I want. For example, I have a key with the label ‘9’ that produces small capital letters like ᴀ, ʙ, ᴄ…. In an earlyer version the label was simply ‘ᴀ’, but every time I pressed the key the output would
    be ‘ᴀᴀ’, it was practically not a dead key but a zombie key.

    Currently I’m rebuilding the greek polytonic keyboard, because I don’t like where the special characters are located in the original layout. Now the same problem occurs with nearly every diacritical mark.

    When I press the keay for

    • ´ (oxia, U+1ffd)
    • ᾿ (psili, U+1fbf)
    and so on, nothing happens but windows making a light tone. There a two exceptions:

    1. ῏ (psili and perispomeni, U+1fcf) behaves like the small caps, which means the output is ‘῏῏’
    2. ΄ (tonos, U+0384), ͺ (iota subscript, U+037a), ̄ (macron, U+00af) and ̆ (breve, U+02d8) behave normally.

    Are there special constraints to the dead keys that I’m not aware of? I have no idea why for example ῏ (psili and perispomeni, U+1fcf) ῟ (dasia and preispomeni, U+1fdf) would behave differently.

    Thanks in advance

    [Moved from: Windows 10 / Install & upgrade]
     
    Johannes Schütz, Jul 4, 2020
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  4. stadion_ Win User

    Custom keyboard layout - add special keys using dead and live keys

    US International layout - Dead keys not working

    Hello,

    I am currently using the US International keyboard layout but when I try to use the dead keys for accents, I get this ''e instead of é or ''c instead of ç (two times the character of the dead keys right after I press the key).
     
    stadion_, Jul 4, 2020
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