Truly Ergonomic finally officially programmable

[davkol]

Yeah, Truly Ergonomic have released a tool for making custom layouts at last. Here it is.

[Vierax]

About time ! A shame it's Windows-only but it's a start (why Bootcamp and not Wine ?). It's weird that it uses a Web browser
If they opened the source code, it must been a while that the soft was even released.

[Muirium]

Boot Camp allows full access to hardware, as Windows is running directly. This is exactly the kind of stuff that needs it, besides unported games of course.

Hear hear about the need for open source. The bother I've been through trying to make a 32 bit Windows system to configure my Tipro! Yikes. Et tu blue screen? It's been so merry a while since last we met.

[Vierax]

Yeah I'm trying to find a Tipro, hard to find a seller who accepts non commercial customers, so I know about the 32bit Windows-only soft. Fortunately, I saved from trash nine months ago an old Pentium4 with XP and PS/2 slots. But maybe this soft works on ReactOS too… I really don't know how stable is this promising OS (still in alpha)

Sorry, I'm not him/her (to answer the question : « Es-tu blue screen ? »)

[Muirium]

No he or she, just something like this:

(Not the exact code. Mine is all about IO.)

My only working PC with PS/2 ports is an i7 that seems to really hate XP. Long old story (I've no SATA optical drive, and installing XP over USB fails on every try) and so far no solution. I must dig out something older too!

[Vierax]

Oh you're talking about BSOD I like this cryptic information, it reminds me my defunct Pentium 3 with Windows 98SE
I'm a Debian-user now but I don't remember to have seen such a screen in 6 years using XP SP3 on AMD socketA CPUs (a Sempron and a high-end Barton witch I should sell one day since the MB is broken)

[nomaded]

The customization interface is open source. It's based on the work from Yuri Khan. See https://github.com/yurivkhan/teck/wiki. This is his post about it.

[Muirium]

If there is ever an open source configurator for Tipro or Access-IS, I will be most grateful! The software for them both is tied to Windows and, naturally, a pain in the jacksie.

[Vierax]

The customization interface is open source. It's based on the work from Yuri Khan. See https://github.com/yurivkhan/teck/wiki. This is his post about it.

yeah I learned it by the bépo forum and I was sad to see that Truly Ergonomic fails to make its own software. If they have shared the specs, hackers didn't have to perform retro-engineering and this programming soft should be effective like a year ago.

[hurting_hands]

I remember when they first came out they told us the controller that was used, and that we could download the SDK and a starter keyboard app from the chip vendor. The implication was that we could roll our own driver if we wanted. I don't remember any of the details of the chip but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

[hurting_hands]

The customization interface is open source. It's based on the work from Yuri Khan. See https://github.com/yurivkhan/teck/wiki. This is his post about it.

yeah I learned it by the bépo forum and I was sad to see that Truly Ergonomic fails to make its own software. If they have shared the specs, hackers didn't have to perform retro-engineering and this programming soft should be effective like a year ago.

My understanding is they worked with Yuri and gave him the source.

[JBert]

Have you read the Geekhack thread ( Truly-Ergonomic’s keycodes remapping ) ?

The way I see it is that some clever guys figured out where the mapping tables are and then started changing them by hand.

Yuri's software adds a nice GUI and makes it easier to remap keys, but even then it is just flipping bits in some thirdparty binary file. Why would you need to do that if you had the source?