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Title: Is there a way to program the keys on my unicomp keyboard?
Post by: SilverZ06 on May 30, 2014, 09:53:08 PM

I have a unicomp classic 104 with trackball and the track ball has 8 buttons that you can see pictured below. Two on the top surface are for left and right click and two on the back surface are also left and right click. I'd like to program the remaining four keys to be volume control (up and down) and a mute button leaving me with still one button. Is there a way to do this within windows or will I need some type of third party software? I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit.



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Title: Re: Is there a way to program the keys on my unicomp keyboard?
Post by: Masherbrum on May 31, 2014, 08:55:29 AM

I would look into third party keyboard programming software.

Title: Re: Is there a way to program the keys on my unicomp keyboard?
Post by: FLS on June 01, 2014, 02:06:42 AM

Do you have a driver for it?

Does the trackball show up in windows as a mouse?

If yes, are the buttons listed?

Title: Re: Is there a way to program the keys on my unicomp keyboard?
Post by: SilverZ06 on June 01, 2014, 09:58:36 PM

Quote from: FLS on June 01, 2014, 02:06:42 AM

Do you have a driver for it?

Does the trackball show up in windows as a mouse?

If yes, are the buttons listed?

The drivers are the generic PnP drivers in windows. Unicomp does not have any proprietary drivers for their keyboards. They simple rely on the users operating system. I see two mouse drivers present, a generic mouse driver and one for my optical mouse. I do not see anything that shows the actual buttons listed anywhere in windows.

Title: Re: Is there a way to program the keys on my unicomp keyboard?
Post by: FLS on June 01, 2014, 10:37:30 PM

Is the trackball listed in Control Panel as a mouse with buttons?

Title: Re: Is there a way to program the keys on my unicomp keyboard?
Post by: Ack-Ack on June 02, 2014, 01:54:36 PM

If you want to program your keyboard, you're going to need to use a 3rd party program for the Unicomp keyboard.  Be warned though, you may not be able to program the trackball with the 3rd party program, you'll have to search for one that would support the programming of the trackball.

ack-ack

Title: Re: Is there a way to program the keys on my unicomp keyboard?
Post by: FLS on June 02, 2014, 05:26:48 PM

I'm wondering what key code the extra buttons send.