Hi, I have customer who asked me to create a keyboard mapping for a specialized character set. He has all the bitmaps of each character and he wants me to build the keyboard ?? mapping so that when you press on eg. a up comes the specialized character etc... Anyone know how to do this where do i start. thanks in advance David J.

You will wnat to capture the keystrokes. If this is going to be an application that uses the new mapping, then you can simply capture the keydown events using Borland C++ Builder, Visual Basic, Java, Visual C++, or another language that uses MFC. If it is to be a process running to capture keystrokes, you will need to create a windows hook using the win32 api functions. Good Luck, Chi Happens

It sounds to me like your customer would benefit the most from a font created from his bitmaps rather than a keyboard hooking program. Macromedia fontographer ($350) will do it, or you can get the cheaper Font creator ($50) by high-logic. If you do decide a keyboard hook is the way to go, but don't want to do your own, I have used Keys Plus for several years to do the spanish special characters and love it. Beware of serious popups on his site now...I guess I'm probably the only person that actually purchased the software:-) -SN

I would make the customer a font. You could contract a graphic artist and tell them to make a full keyboard of vector versions of the bitmaps. Then map the vector images yourself in a profile, or create a daemon that translates in realtime. You can use VB.NET or VC++ to map keys in 2000/XP. http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?View=msdn&st=a&qu=keyboard+mapping&c=4&s=2 This program does it: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,19645,00.asp