spacesaver rt3200 numlock issue

[vincentbihler]

Hey there!

I thought I'll drop my issue here as I haven't found a workaround yet. I own a nice RT3200 spacesaver since quite some time and I love it. I recently wanted to add the infamous numpad KU9880 next to it as I thought it would help my work a lil bit. But I am now facing an issue: when I engage the numpad numlock, it also engages the numbers on the RT3200. So the numpad becomes a bit useless if I have to activate and then de-activate it each time I want to enter a number... Any idea how to let the num lock activated on the KU9880 and not on the spacesaver?

nb: the rt3200 is a ps2 device whereas the ku9880 is usb.

Thanks in advance for the inputs!

[thefarside]

I wonder if you can rebind the keys on either the numpad or the keyboard (or both) using AutoHotKey or a similar program so that NumLock isn't required.

For example using AutoHotKey you could find the scan codes for each key on the keyboard and numpad and if they're all unique you could bind them to the desired values without needing to enable NumLock.

[vincentbihler]

I’ll try that tomorrow! Sounds pretty hopeful thanks for that answer

[thefarside]

no problem if you need any help using it just post here and I can include some screenshots. It’s a handy utility and very powerful.

[vincentbihler]

Hey thefarside,

Thanks so much for this idea. I also saw the possibility to use the registry to modify Keys but it sounds pretty complicated as the register uses hexa codes that I don't really know. Even if it would certainly be cleaner than AutoHotKey. I actually made it work with autokey, the script was super easy to do! 0.123456789. My numpad is now working fantastic

Is there a way to run the script automatically at Windows startup?
edit: found an easy way by myself, like a big boy. .Exe converted the script and then moved it to the windows startup folder.

Thanks for everything!

[thefarside]

Great to hear!