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How to invert wedge keyboard function keys

Anonymous
2012-11-30T03:26:52+00:00

I'm a developer and I just purchased the new Wedge Keyboard as I like the form factor and mobility of it. However, I'm finding it to be very tedious when I'm coding as a lot of shortcut keys range from F5-F12. I'm now forced to press the FN key when I want to do this.

Is there a simple way to invert the function of these keys? So pressing it by default would trigger the F* key and with FN it would bring up the windows 8 charms?

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-01-18T13:05:40+00:00

    http://www.autohotkey.com/

    With this script, work for me!

    Media_Play_Pause::F1
Volume_Mute::F2
Volume_Down::F3
Volume_Up::F4
<+#F21::F5
<!<#F21::F6
<^<#F21::F7
<#F21::F8
PrintScreen::F9
Home::F10
End::F11
PgUp::F12
F1::Media_Play_Pause
F2::Volume_Mute
F3::Volume_Down
F4::Volume_Up
F5::<+#F21
F6::<!<#F21
F7::<^<#F21
F8::<#F21
F9::PrintScreen
F10::Home
F11::End
F12::PgUp
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  1. Anonymous
    2014-01-29T01:22:07+00:00

    You absolute legend; thank you so much!

    I cannot state how much this is going to help me out. Thanks so much.

    I have modified the script to exclude the Home / End / Pg Up/Dn keys as I use those a lot.

    PS Microsoft please take note - this is a great keyboard but you have dropped the ball on the function keys big time. You really should provide your own software solution for this.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-02-28T18:57:25+00:00

    How did you get this to work with the sculpt keyboard?  The F5-F12 keys have different functions than those listed above.  On the scuplt keyboard, they are search, share, devices, settings, etc.  It looks like the keyboard generates modified keystrokes when you hit one of those keys (LWin, LCtrl, etc.).  If I put this in the autohotkey, it gets tripped up because they Fn key is the same, but the modifiers are different.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-11-24T11:28:04+00:00

    http://www.autohotkey.com/

    With this script, work for me!

    Media_Play_Pause::F1
Volume_Mute::F2
Volume_Down::F3
Volume_Up::F4
<+#F21::F5
<!<#F21::F6
<^<#F21::F7
<#F21::F8
PrintScreen::F9
Home::F10
End::F11
PgUp::F12
F1::Media_Play_Pause
F2::Volume_Mute
F3::Volume_Down
F4::Volume_Up
F5::<+#F21
F6::<!<#F21
F7::<^<#F21
F8::<#F21
F9::PrintScreen
F10::Home
F11::End
F12::PgUp

    Dude, you saved me so much effort. Thanks a lot!

    UPDATE:

    Its not working with visual studio ;/

    The keys f5, f6 and f7, to be specific.

    Any suggestion?

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-02-18T18:43:23+00:00

    Thats works better for F5 F6 F7 F8 keys

    Media_Play_Pause::F1

    Volume_Mute::F2

    Volume_Down::F3

    Volume_Up::F4

    <+<#F21::SendInput {F5} return

    <!<#F21::SendInput {F6} return

    <^<#F21::SendInput {F7} return

    <#F21::SendInput {F8} return

    PrintScreen::F9

    Home::F10

    End::F11

    PgUp::F12

    F1::Media_Play_Pause

    F2::Volume_Mute

    F3::Volume_Down

    F4::Volume_Up

    F5::<+#F21

    F6::<!<#F21

    F7::<^<#F21

    F8::<#F21

    F9::PrintScreen

    F10::Home

    F11::End

    F12::PgUp

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