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Using a USB controller as auxiliary keyboard for Visual Studio

Our family no longer uses our Mixman DM2 USB controller for making music. This frees it up for me to use as an auxiliary keyboard with 31 "keys" (and a few "sliders"). I had the crazy idea to use these buttons to send keyboard shortcuts to Visual Studio. It just seems easier pressing one key than some of the finger-bending ctrl double-key combos.

I tried a couple utilities like JoyToKey and XPadder but they only recognize game controllers and the DM2 falls into the more generic "USB Controller" category.

Have you ever heard of such nonsense?

Clarify Question: Are you aware of a utility to read inputs from a generic USB Controller and map them to keyboard key presses? -OR- Are you aware of a Visual Studio add-in that will read from a generic USB Controller?

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Yeah, I was thinking about doing something similiar to that myself. I'm pretty sure you'd have to write your own driver for it though.

TraumaPony  2008-09-20 06:01:39
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Haven't heard of it before, but I can't wait to see if you can make it useful!

You can assign Visual Studio functions to "chords" of key combinations, right? So maybe you could play shave-and-a-haircut to start a build.

Kevin Conner  2008-09-20 06:02:26

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