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That's a worry.....just starting to get back into QL programming and now I can't do it without saving basic to dos file. editing in Windows, reloading in QPCII to test....not a very appealing development environment.

As suggested, I've used Clavier and have managed to get access to both = and # keys. I've still lost some others, but the main keys are okay. The downside is that I can't get =/+ in the correct place, so now it's on the ] key.....bit of a pain when typing as you have to stop and think when you want =.

However, Marcel has said he will be looking at keyboard handling, but it may be sometime before a "solution" is available. The sooner the better for me, but at least I can work at the moment.

JonS wrote:As suggested, I've used Clavier and have managed to get access to both = and # keys. I've still lost some others, but the main keys are okay. The downside is that I can't get =/+ in the correct place, so now it's on the ] key.....bit of a pain when typing as you have to stop and think when you want =.
However, Marcel has said he will be looking at keyboard handling, but it may be sometime before a "solution" is available. The sooner the better for me, but at least I can work at the moment.

Just a thought on this Jon, although it's probably a bit obvious. Could you perhaps try using ALTKEY definitions so that the "missing" keys can be generated using other keys, e.g. if you were missing an @ symbol but the [ key above it was working, do something like ALTKEY '[','@'

Dilwyn

No problem using ALTKEY apart from the obvious of needing to press ALT. I'm not sure if you can get shifted characters on the same key, but that's not too important. A combination of Clavier and ALTKEY has me working. Although the keyboard is a little bit of a pain, I can work. However, roll on when QPC can handle my keyboard without these work arounds!

Mr_Navigator wrote:I had this problem with my new laptop (TOSHIBA) with key mappings posted here a few months ago, sadly never resolved the issue.

Thought I would update this particular post as my situation resolved itself (kind off).

Having not being able to do much with my Toshiba laptop using QPC2 version 3.+ due to the key mapping issue very similar to the JonS situation, I went on to different things.

However, I upgraded to Windows 8 and hey presto it all worked flawlessly

Toshiba Laptop went in to meltdown - lost everything but everything (no back-up)

Re-built from scratch with Windows 8 again and hey presto it all worked flawlessly still

QPC2 version 4 installed and hey presto that worked flawlessly aswell

So what did Windows 7 do that caused the key mapping only in QPC2 to become useless I wonder?

Perhaps I will never know