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RE: What keyboard do you use for QB64 PE? - Kernelpanic - 06-24-2024
My keyboards were always part of the computer purchase. When I had to buy one, they were always inexpensive.
The best keyboard in my opinion was one from Microsoft, which lasted about 13 years, then the keys started to cause problems; it only cost €14.95 at Kaufland (supermarket). Unfortunately, they don't sell them anymore.
I now have one from MS, for €9.99. It works.
The picture shows the keyboard from the time of MS Vista.
![[Image: MS-Tastatur.jpg]](https://i.ibb.co/fng8Xv5/MS-Tastatur.jpg)
RE: What keyboard do you use for QB64 PE? - vividpixel - 06-27-2024
(06-24-2024, 06:35 PM)SpriggsySpriggs Wrote: Except you have to use another USB port. So there is a small downside to it.They're Bluetooth, in case that wasn't noticed--but fair if you don't have that.
Though they do include USB receivers and can also be wired, so what I like about this is that I can have it connected to 3 different devices and just toggle between them by turning a knob. I resisted wireless keyboards but I've never had an issue with it. Never have to worry about charging, either, because the battery stays topped up.
Oh yeah, I forgot about the buttons. They're cool in theory but I didn't set them up to do anything useful and so they stay out of the way and not utilized. I did find it a surprise that they used just a single key switch inside each big button, just more actuation force required.
RE: What keyboard do you use for QB64 PE? - bplus - 06-28-2024
Fresh out of the box 5 mins ago:
Now I have full sized arrow keys, working Left shift key AND an Insert key I can easily find.
Mouse is smaller and lighter even better than old Logitech which was a replacement.
The keys use decals though.
RE: What keyboard do you use for QB64 PE? - Pete - 06-28-2024
I have a solid gold keyboard, so my programs are literally worth their weight in gold. Steve uses a similar approach. He codes while sitting on a solid gold toilet seat, so no one can his programs aren't worth a...
Written on my standard cheap-ASCII laptop keyboard.
Pete
RE: What keyboard do you use for QB64 PE? - SMcNeill - 06-28-2024
(06-28-2024, 10:10 PM)Pete Wrote: I have a solid gold keyboard, so my programs are literally worth their weight in gold. Steve uses a similar approach. He codes while sitting on a solid gold toilet seat, so no one can his programs aren't worth a...
Written on my standard cheap-ASCII laptop keyboard.
Pete
I can't work anymore, without a series of nice G-keys on my keyboard. (Take a look at the image of the keyboard I posted earlier -- it has 18 G-keys there on the left hand side of the keyboard.) Those things are GOLDEN!!
As an author, I can set macros for those keys, as vast shortcuts for things that are very repetitive typing. A long arse character name, or the name of some long arse city/place -- just set it to one of those G-keys and then click it and PRESTO!! Instantly in your work, without having to think about spelling, typing, or anything else! Set CTRL + that G-key and PRESTO!! Instant insert of nickname for that thing. Shift+G-key might be a quick command to pop up your notes for that thing, so you can add to them, reference them, or whatever else. And that's all with ONE G-key -- I have 18 of them to make use of!
As a programmer, I use those G-keys in a very similar manner. Long arse commands that I know I'm going to be using a lot in my programs get mapped to them, for ease of use. G-1 may be PRINT. CTRL+G-1 would be _PRINTSTRING(. Shift+G-1 would be _UPrintString(. G-2 is usually something like _FileOpenDialog, with CTRL+G-2 being _FileSaveDialong....
One click of those keys, and I don't need to wrack my brain if it's OpenFileDialog or FileOpenDialog or LoadFileDialog or.... It's a new command. I know what I want to do, and I know it does it, but my brain hasn't indexed it fully yet into my common set of usage keywords so I can always keep it's name/syntax and such clear, without having to look it up. With those G-keys, I just need to remember G-2 is "Load", Ctrl+G-2 is "Save".
As a gamer, those keys absolutely RULE the world!!
Play a game like EveryQuest, and you have 800 different keys you can press to do stuff, along with 1000 typed in commands. G-keys takes all the hassle out of those.
For example, in EQ my character is a mage. G1 is set as this macro:
/cast 8 (cast the 8th spell in my spell bar, which is my pet summon spell.)
/wait 3 (it takes 3 seconds for the spell to finish to summon the pet)
/pet target mine (have the pet target whatever I'm targetting personally)
/pet attack (attack that target)
One key click and it casts the spell, times the completion, targets the enemy, attacks the enemy --- and that's a SIMPLE attack macro.
I want to go fishing? Set a macro for G2
/fish
/wait 3
/loot all
/repeat
Click. Go to bed. Fish all night, wake up to 800 various fish all loaded in my pack so I can now work on my cooking skill -- which I met set to G3, and who's macro is now complex enough as to require mouse movements and mouse clicks along with those slash commands....
Those G-keys are GOLDEN as far as I'm concerned. I honestly don't want any keyboard anymore, that doesn't have at least a half dozen of them built-in to it.