Twiddler config converter!

DDRBoxman

I spent some time figuring out the v6 config format and wrote a converter that can convert v5 to v6 configs.

It should handle all the chords and strings fine but the global configs like mouse acceleration speed will need to be manually changed in the Tuner UI.

Project here:
https://github.com/DDRBoxman/twiddler-cfg

Builds here:
https://github.com/DDRBoxman/twiddler-cfg/releases/tag/0.1.0

Backspice2 Config it converted:
https://github.com/DDRBoxman/twiddler-cfg/raw/main/configs/backspicev2_v6.cfg

Geoff

DDRBoxman pretty cool! When you convert backspice, does 3M 4M produce 'th' as intended? Folks who've converted via the tuner get 'n'.

datacyclist

Geoff This might be related to the multikey keystrokes issue, though. Once I have too many multi-key keystrokes in the tuner, I also get "n" instead of "th", no matter whether I start from an empty layout or if I'm converting an original backspice layout from an older version up to V6. Not sure why the discussion on the other topic is closed, though, can't reply on the non-locked thread.

DDRBoxman

Also only just types n unfortunately.

Geoff

Ah drat, thanks for checking though.

DDRBoxman

I saw some conversation in the other thread about moving over the modifier keys, I think I've set this up to do that but if someone could double check if looks right in v6 version that would be awesome. I haven't used a Twiddler till last week so I'm still figuring things out.

Here's how the coverter is currently mapping the v5 state.
impl Into<ButtonState> for ButtonData { fn into(self) -> ButtonState { ButtonState { t1: self.num(), t2: self.alt(), t3: self.ctrl(), t4: self.shift(),

Geoff

datacyclist Yup, it's hitting too many people over too many layouts to be a user or layout specific issue.

Did you get a response to your support ticket?

I'm finding TekGear communication on this matter to not be a robust success. Locking threads and directing people to other locked threads is not helpful - we just want an update.

datacyclist

Geoff No response to my tickets so far. And yes, your last two lines about handling the support issues are exactly what I think, too. I'd love to help in solving the problem and improving the T4 even further. A community and a helpful forum is something that's really useful and a worthy part of the product/experience.

Geoff

Fully agree. I bought my first Twiddler back in 2015. I want this to be a success.

DDRBoxman

I just pushed up code and tagged a build to add support for importing the dido format if anyone was interested in that.

I think I might look into adding functionality to auto generate chords for making capital letters with the shift key next since I didn't see a way to do that in the official tuner.

datacyclist

DDRBoxman I assume you mean here: https://github.com/DDRBoxman/twiddler-cfg -- nice, I'll have a look.

datacyclist

datacyclist Oh nice, so there is an official binary file format documentation for the V5 config (not yet for V6).

Tony

datacyclist https://www.mytwiddler.com/doc/doku.php?id=twiddler_config_format

IMPORTANT: Note comments on V6 config spec.

DDRBoxman

Thanks for the heads up Tony, can't wait for the new firmware and v7 config!

I went ahead and figured out the global config flags for the v6 format and added that information to the twiddler-cfg repo.

I've also made a new release that has a new flag that can auto generate uppercase versions of chords by specifying which thumb key you want to act as shift.
https://github.com/DDRBoxman/twiddler-cfg/releases/tag/0.2.0

ex:

./twiddler_cfg --generate-caps 4 ./configs/CoolHand.txt ./coolhand_v6_caps.cfg`
Starts with a #, assuming Dido config
mouse_mid: false
mouse_right: false
mouse_left: false
Adding 29 uppercase chords
Wrote config

DDRBoxman

Just took a look at some of the generated v7 format files from the tuner, nice to see that the multiple command / strings offset got fixed. I noticed that in v6 and it definitely seemed out of place compared to the other commands.

DDRBoxman

Ah nice, this lets me clean up my code a bit 🥳