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From: JohnH. on 25 Sep 2006 11:16
Hi,

Does anybody have a .vkm (virtual keyboard map) file for Vice 1.2 that
maps symbolically to a standard Windows PC keyboard? I'm looking for
a map that matches the symbols on the Windows PC keyboard so that
<Shift><9> would print a "(" in Vice, that sort of thing. Ideally
I'd like to get one for both the 128 and the 64. You can e-mail me a
john(at)jrcc.net.

Thanks,
John

As an aside. Vice comes with two .vkm files for the 128 called
win_pos.vkm and win_sym.vkm. I think the win_sym.vkm is supposed to be
what I want, but the two files seem to contain identical key maps. Am
I missing something?

From: David Murray on 25 Sep 2006 11:28

> <Shift><9> would print a "(" in Vice, that sort of thing. Ideally
> I'd like to get one for both the 128 and the 64. You can e-mail me a

Great. now I know I'm not crazy. I asked about this once before
(because it irritates me too!) and 90% of the respondents thought I
was crazy (IE: Why would you want to do that?) And the rest seemed to
think I could just click some menu setting and it would change,
although I never found any such setting. The windows version doesn't
seem to include any other keymap.

From: David Murray on 25 Sep 2006 11:28

> <Shift><9> would print a "(" in Vice, that sort of thing. Ideally
> I'd like to get one for both the 128 and the 64. You can e-mail me a

Great. now I know I'm not crazy. I asked about this once before
(because it irritates me too!) and 90% of the respondents thought I
was crazy (IE: Why would you want to do that?) And the rest seemed to
think I could just click some menu setting and it would change,
although I never found any such setting. The windows version doesn't
seem to include any other keymap.

From: RajW on 25 Sep 2006 14:30
On 25 Sep 2006 08:16:06 -0700, "JohnH." <john(a)jrcc.net> wrote:

>Does anybody have a .vkm (virtual keyboard map) file for Vice 1.2 that
>maps symbolically to a standard Windows PC keyboard?

I could use this too. I just got my Hummer DTV working (Thanks David
M.!) and it has the keys mapped to the PC keyboard. I'm jumping back
and forth from WinVICE to the DTV and the different keys are a little
bit of a pain.


/*Raj*/
From: JohnH. on 25 Sep 2006 19:33
Okay, I received a reply on this issue from the Vice development team.
Here it is.

"The win32 port does not properly support symbolic mapping. As long as
this is not fixed the symbolic vkm is just a placeholder."

So, we are not confused and missing the point. I'm assuming that a lot
of Vice users are running it on Windows. How are people adapting to
the positional keyboard mappings? Is there a clever keyboard overlay
floating around out there or custom key caps. I can't image that I am
the only person that would have trouble remembering that '\' = '=', '*'
= '(', '(' = ')', and so on.

Anybody got a good idea?

John

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