Sensitive Keys

[Peter]

Hey all,

I just got my AlphaGrip yesterday and have been having fun playing
around with it. My biggest problem it seems is the sensitive keys.
When I'm typing something all of a sudden i'll do something like
bbbbbbbbb or nnnnnnnnnnnn or something like that. Sometimes it's from
the key I'm trying to push and sometimes is another one.

I was wondering if that is a normal newbie problem... Is it just
something I just need to be careful about or if there is something I
can do to help prevent it?

I do plan on modifying it a bit as some of the pictures have shown
because I have large hands so maybe that will help...

Thanks

Peter

[Doug Sims]

I think most likely it is your large hands. Some padding may help with
that. For me, the key to using the grip without pressing extra keys is
to let it rest on the "wings" at the top in between your hands. That
way your hands are relaxed and not putting extra pressure on any keys.
I only have that problem when I am setting it down not on pause, and
its usually "aaaaaaaaa" or "ppppppppppp". If it's only b and n that
are doing it, your right hand may not be positioned correctly. Padding
on the sides will help this.

It could also be that your keyboard settings for repeating keys is
unusually short. Try checking those settings.

One more thing, what operating system are you using?

--Doug Sims

[Peter Sheats]

Mac OS 10.4.11

[Felipe Castro]

Hello,

> > I just got my AlphaGrip yesterday and have been having fun playing
> > around with it. My biggest problem it seems is the sensitive keys.
> > When I'm typing something all of a sudden i'll do something like
> > bbbbbbbbb or nnnnnnnnnnnn or something like that. Sometimes it's from
> > the key I'm trying to push and sometimes is another one.

I just got mine this weekend and also feel a little bit the same
difficulty. I work with GNU/Linux (Debian). It works fine there, I
remapped it with some XKB configuration in order to adapt it to the
Portuguese language.

> I only have that problem when I am setting it down not on pause, and
> its usually "aaaaaaaaa" or "ppppppppppp".

I think that's because the keys for the pinkies are too big. Those
finger are smaller, so I guess it'd be nice to have also smaller keys
for them. Maybe this can be another suggestion for AG6.

Felipe Castro.

[Avram]

I think it's a Mac issue, actually. I get the same 'stuck key' effect
sometimes on my standard Mac keyboard. (Technically, it seems to miss
the KeyReleased/KeyUp event.)

On Apr 15, 2:43 pm, "Peter Sheats" <she...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mac OS 10.4.11

[Lars Krueger]

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> Datum: Mon, 19 May 2008 14:46:02 -0700 (PDT)
> Von: Avram <avram.w...@gmail.com>
> An: alphagrip <alph...@googlegroups.com>
> Betreff: [alphagrip] Re: Sensitive Keys

>
> I think it's a Mac issue, actually. I get the same 'stuck key' effect
> sometimes on my standard Mac keyboard. (Technically, it seems to miss
> the KeyReleased/KeyUp event.)

Don't know if this is related, but during the development of usbhotkey I had similar effects on linux. If the timeout of the usb read is too short, you miss events. This indeed might be a bug in MacOS.

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