How to invert wedge keyboard function keys

Question

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?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

Here is a slightly modified version of this AutoHotkey (http://www.autohotkey.com/) script which clears the control keys before F5, F6 and F7 and F8, so that it will work correctly with Visual Studio, for example.

Media_Play_Pause::F1

Volume_Mute::F2

Volume_Down::F3

Volume_Up::F4

<+#F21::

send {Shift Up}

send {LWin Up}

send {f5}

return

<!<#F21::

send {LAlt Up}

send {LWin Up}

send {F6}

return

<^<#F21::

send {LCtrl Up}

send {LWin Up}

send {F7}

return

<#F21::

send {LWin Up}

send {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

Answer 3

Maybe make sure it is the Unicode version of Autohotkey

Answer 4

Thanks Toby-r! Here is a version of your script that gets rid of the worthless Search, Share, Device & Settings keys so for instance in Visual Studio you can hold down F5 by holding Fn & F5 or for non repeating F5 you can just hit F5 without fn. This is because AutoHotKey doesn't execute the command to map F5 fast enough in Visual Studio to hold down F5 by itself without restarting debugging while it's good for stepping slowly through code but for holding down F5 use fn + f5.

Media_Play_Pause::F1

 Volume_Mute::F2

 Volume_Down::F3

 Volume_Up::F4

 <+#F21::

 send {Shift Up}

 send {LWin Up}

 send {f5}

 return

 <!<#F21::

 send {LAlt Up}

 send {LWin Up}

 send {F6}

 return

 <^<#F21::

 send {LCtrl Up}

 send {LWin Up}

 send {F7}

 return

 <#F21::

 send {LWin Up}

 send {F8}

 return

 PrintScreen::F9

 Home::F10

 End::F11

 PgUp::F12

 F1::Media_Play_Pause

 F2::Volume_Mute

 F3::Volume_Down

 F4::Volume_Up

 F9::PrintScreen

 F10::Home

 F11::End

 F12::PgUp