Suggestion - add LClick button (or a free accessible key)

[Mikhail V]

Hi!

I like the 2030 typematrix design very much - it seems it could fit my needs nicely.
(I have not tried it, so I am thinking about buying one)

There is one pet peeve of mine with keyboards - none of them have mouse click
button. And they have a huge space button. I am always thinking that there must be one
extra button somewhere near the spce bar, to emulate the left mouse click.

Many applications rely heavily on LClick.
For example if I work on a graphic tablet - there is no click functionality.
Some tablets emulate the LClick on a tip touch - but that really sucks - it makes
it next to impossible to work at all, so I always turn this off .

Also I am using a custom-made button-less mouse sometimes. It is for precise graphical work.
On a normal keyboard, I use AHK to emulate LClick and bind it to the space button.
This helps a lot, but then I need to input space somehow - but there is no more keys
that are easily reachable near the space bar, so it still sucks.

So my suggestion is - how about adding an LClick key somewhere under the thumb.
I don't know how it corresponds to keyboard scan codes though, and if there is
such reserved code for LClick. Anyway, I think there should be some key there,
so at least one can bind it to LClick with AHK.

I have attached a sketch with a button drawn left to the space bar.

So if there will be such key in future design, I'll definitely buy it - so it is the only thing
that keeps me from buying this keyboard now. Everything else seems perfect to me.



Cheers

[Stu L]

I've been typing on a 2030DV only for about a dozen years now.  I don't need the Media Play/Pause button, so I remapped it using AHK:

Media_Play_Pause::    ;  sc122
    Click
    Return

:-)

[Mikhail V]

yep, binding LClick to some unused key is what I made first. I have used LWin (start) button for a month, but
it turned out it is not comfortable - cringing the little finger, or, if using the thumb, moving the hand constantly back and forth.
And I've ended up with Space key for LClick, it is most comfortable, also Ctrl+Click or Shift+Click is very easy.
So LClick should be somewhere under the thumb, i.e. where the space key is.


The problem with 'space as click' though - how do I type in the Space character then :-)

So for typing space character I use AltGR (it is RAlt on a german keyboard I use now).
My AHK setup:

*Space::
    click down left
    keywait, space
    click up left
return

Ralt:: space


This needs some practice to get used to though :-)
Also AltGr in windows does not work with layouts other than US.
When I switch to RU or DE, it just stops working. So I need to figure out how to solve that...

BTW, I have found some Japanese keyboards fotos in the net:
 
http://xahlee.info/kbd/tiny_space_bar_japanese_keyboard.html

They have more keys under the thumb. But those are staggered, and I
don't like staggered keys- it strains because I mus cringe my fingers.
And I really suspect those extra keys are not standard scan codes -
probably will not work by default with AHK.