Is it possible to reprogram a USB Numpad?

[geofftoons]

Hi All,

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, for those that celebrate it.

I have a C-140XL running Vista Home Premium, and do a lot of work in Photoshop and Illustrator, and have been using the virtual keyboard for my shortcuts while in tablet mode. I just bought a cheap little USB Numpad today, and I was wondering if there is a way to reprogram the keys to have say, the 0 key on the keypad to become the CTRL key, the 1 key become the U key (for Undo) etc., and on down the line for my favorite shortcuts.

Is this even possible? I found a shareware online for reprogramming your regular keyboard keys, but nothing to reprogram the numpad.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[MJCS]

http://www.autohotkey.com/

[icefreez]

http://www.autohotkey.com/

It may take a bit of coding but Autohotkey will work excellently. It can perform many other things you never knew you could simplify on your PC.

[geofftoons]

Thanks guys, I'll check that out, it looks promising!

[mickeymao]

Hey, did you ever get this working? I want to do exactly the same thing, and I'm guessing I could spend a number of hours trying to get it to work right. If you have an AutoHotkeys script, would you mind sharing?

Thanks!

[Vertrucio]

Check to see if you programs support a second hotkey attached to various functions.

On the other hand, Photoshop allows you to save all your current keyboard shortcuts into a set and load them at will. So you could make a set of shortcuts in Photoshop just for the usb keypad. However, I'm not sure if all such programs have that ability.

[geofftoons]

Sorry for the long delay in a response guys, I've been busy as all get out lately!

Anyhow, to answer your question Mickeymao, no, I wasn't able to get it working because once I opened up the Autohotkey program I got totally lost and confused about the whole thing, so I just said screw it.

Since my original post, I've gotten pretty adept at using the virtual keyboard for my shorcuts and don't even notice it now.

Vertucio, thanks. I'll take a look at that, but like I said, I've gotten use to using the virtual keyboard now. But if anyone does figure out the script and can write out directions on how to set it up in a Auto Hotkeys for Dummies format, that would be great, because it sounds like I'm not the only person here interested in that.

Thanks for your responses. : )

[Kmonio]

Keytweak worked for me. Once installed, just change the numpad keys for the expanded keyboard, changes the usb numpad keys as well.

KeyTweak - Descargar

Freeware, works on XP, Vista, 7...

[Maeflower]

I was trying to do this before but never really got much farther than searching. I saved a few links for when I do buy a keypad though. These might be helpful
Tab Pad: AutoHotKey Script
Trying to remap a USB Numeric Keypad

I also looked at a few small keyboards so I can do all the Photoshop shortcuts.
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