How to send a Shift key plus a letter key without it being capitalized?

banditjoj

Hi, running into an issue with the Twiddler 4 config, when I want to send 'Shift + a' for example, it turns it into capital 'A' but I don't want that, I want 'Shift + a' for a shortcut, is there a workaround for this?

banditjoj

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datacyclist

Wouldn't this mean that the twiddler would have to send two HID codes for two different keyboard buttons at the same time?

You can probably send them one after another, if you add another "keyboard" line for the shortcut, maybe with a delay in between. And you may have to use the keycode 225 (0xE1) if you only want to send the left shift keyboard button, for example.

Or could this be a case for the "direct key mode"? Never tried it so far.

banditjoj

datacyclist I'll try delay and see if it works, but I would hate to have to use the direct key mode since I didn't have to with Twiddler 3...it would make the utility of the Twiddler 4 worse for me than Twiddler 3

Tony

What keyboard action are you trying to emulate with the Twiddler?

Keep in mind, in regular mode, the Twiddler sends HID codes AFTER the chord has been made and any button in that chord is released.

banditjoj

Tony In this case "Shift + a" so it would be like holding down Shift and A together for example like doing Ctrl + A but with Shift instead, on Twiddler 3 I was able to do this using the Shift modifier thumb button + the 'a' key I assigned