Alternate keyboard

Private_Joker · Post by **Private_Joker** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 4:45 pm

I'm using a left-hand Dvorak keyboard, but D3 takes the input as standard QWERTY. This means that when I try to type messages in game chat, they look an awful lot like

Joker: Tkredku dth kkuh ckh kytcytc ycth!

Does D3 support alternate layouts? How can I change the input?

-Joker

Zantor · Post by **Zantor** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 5:46 pm

Which OS are you using? I know in Windows you can change the keyboard layout, and D3 should work with that.

Private_Joker · Post by **Private_Joker** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 5:52 pm

WinXP. The layout is changed, but D3 doesn't accept it. I think it takes direct input and just assumes that it's QWERTY, but it's not.

-Joker

TechPro · Post by **TechPro** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:01 pm

Just use Descent 3's keyboard layout config options ... and re-program each key for what you want. Simple.

BUBBALOU · Post by **BUBBALOU** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:08 pm

techpro, from his post i really do not think it is an issue with his in game controls just the in game chat only....

TechPro · Post by **TechPro** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 10:19 pm

Oops. My bad.

snoopy · Post by **snoopy** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:08 pm

I think your only hope would be for there to be an (undocumented) command-line option out there to control keyboard layout.

Private_Joker · Post by **Private_Joker** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:13 am

Bah.

-Joker

Grendel · Post by **Grendel** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 12:53 am

D3 reads keycodes, bypassing the code-to-character translation of windows.

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:48 am

...which means your only hope is to find a third-party key-translator that converts the keycodes before D3 catches them; although I'm not sure one exists, unless it's a hardware solution.

Canuck · Post by **Canuck** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:35 pm

Private_Joker wrote:I'm using a left-hand Dvorak keyboard, but D3 takes the input as standard QWERTY. This means that when I try to type messages in game chat, they look an awful lot like

Joker: Tkredku dth kkuh ckh kytcytc ycth!

Does D3 support alternate layouts? How can I change the input?

-Joker

Ok something like this? Looks like a little dongle that allows switching on the fly. Big Link Eaten by Little Link

AlphaDoG · Post by **AlphaDoG** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 6:44 pm

Don't know if that will do much for the \"D3 reads keycodes, bypassing the code-to-character translation of windows.\", sent to D3, but it may be worth a try.

Canuck · Post by **Canuck** » Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:19 pm

It is inline at the USB port and translates the signals in hardware before D3 sees it so it should have no problems.

Foil · Post by **Foil** » Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:17 am

Yep, a hardware solution like that should work fine.

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