Key mapping question

Hi i am trying to finish up an on screen keyboard and i cant figure out how to map several of the keys like backspace, ctrl, enter…etc…

Hey assimilat,

your question is not that precise
so i assume that this helps you:
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you can monitor those “special” codes with an IOBox (String) connected to the outlet of a Keyboard (System) Global.
when comparing with = (String) be sure to set the Case Sensitive-pin to 1.
KeyMatch (String) seems to be not case sensitive.

Heh, Sorry I wasnt that clear ive been patching for days now…What I am doing is building a keyboard via GDI and i know how to map all the buttons that have an 1-0, a-z value and i have set the shift and caps just to hit a CAPS node but i cant figure out how to map the tab/ctrl/alt/space/enter/backspace buttons…here is a snapshot of my keyboard…thanks for the help

keyboard.jpg (107.5 kB)

i guess to clarify further using the above attached file i have a 59 slice spread…each time a key is pressed it sends a 1 on its respective spread I have an IO box(string) that i have filled with the key data that I am outputting(i.e. slice 1=q 2=w 3=e and so on)basically i just want to know how to map the tab/ctrl/alt/space/enter/backspace buttons…if you want to see what im doing ive attached the patch(sorry its kinda a mess…)…also im planning on changing the text on the keys when shift/caps is depressed…just havent gotten around to it yet…

keyboard.v4p (175.4 kB)

And thinking about it more I could probably do without Ctrl/Alt/Tab…so that would just leave me with needing to map Enter and Backspace which I think I could just map those to a different system as the ascii characters like i did with my caps and shift keys…now to figure out how =\

i think KeyMatch does almost all the things you need.
put something like
<ENTER> <BACK> <SHIFT> A B C D E F G
into the keymatch input. then use Stallone to put all the output pins into one large spread.

note that the Keyboard nodes work on a very low level, which doesnt know about international keyboards. so creating international applications with a proper use öf umlauts and the like is a major challenge, as you neeed to reinvent all keyboard localizations.