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Offline Macsmasher

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Swap keys on Realforce KB?
« on: Sat, 23 March 2013, 07:34:04 »
I have my new HHKB dip switched so that the Del key is the Backspace. I love it. My other primary board is a RF 87U. I would like to swap the Backslash and Backspace keys on it.

I have and use AutoHotkey as well as MSFT Keyboard Layout Creator. And I could very easily accomplish the swap there...if I were using a single keyboard. But I keep both my RF and HHKB hooked up. So, a change in the OS will affect both keyboards and I only want to change the RF.

My primary OS is Win7, and as far as I know, there is no way to target only one keyboard with a key swap. It I'm wrong, please edumacate me. If a software key swap isn't possible, can the keyboard itself be modified?

Offline nar

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Re: Swap keys on Realforce KB?
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 23 March 2013, 14:56:30 »
Windows can actually get the model name of the keyboard so in theory you could target only one keyboard, but I don't know any program that takes advantage of it.
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Offline hasu

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Re: Swap keys on Realforce KB?
« Reply #2 on: Sat, 23 March 2013, 18:31:24 »
You can cut and patch Topre capacitive PCB.