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!HID User Manual - KeyLEDs

Keyboard LEDs in the iconbar
Keyboards come in many flavours these days. Most keyboards have a wire to connect to the USB system on your computer, but some have a wireless link whereby a receiver is plugged into the USB socket of the computer. Such keyboards are powered by a battery and won't have LEDs for ScrollLock, CapsLock and NumLock, as this would exhaust the battery too quickly. Some modern wirless keyboards have their LEDs on the receiver, but this might not be practicle as in most cases the receiver will be out of the user's view. For this reason a module called KeyLEDs has been added to !HID.

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How does it work?
When KeyLEDs is being used, a set of 3 LEDs will be shown in the iconbar. Each LED represents one of the LEDs notmally a present on a Keyboard. A red LED is used for ScrollLock (top), a yellow one is used for NumLock (middle) and finally a green LED represents CapsLock. Pressing one of the Lock keys on any keyboard will be reflected in the LEDs in the iconbar immediately.   

Configuring KeyLEDs
There are several options to customise KeyLEDs which can all be accessed through Choices... (select !Choices from the !HID iconbar menu). Select the Keyboard TAB at the top row of tabs and then select the LED TAB at the bottom of the window.

Turn the option Keyboard LEDs in iconbar off if you don't want to use KeyLEDs.

Use the Position menu to set the position of the LEDs in the iconbar. Several choices are available both at the left and right of the iconbar. By default the LEDs will be positioned left of the Display manager.

By default, KeyLEDs will use the design of the three LEDs shown here. It is however possible to customise KeyLEDs and use your own designs for the LEDs. To show how this works, two designs (Names and Traffic) are supplied with the program. Click the button Open folder to open the directory containing the images and check the !ReadMe file to find out how to create your own LED designs.
  

Using KeyLEDs in combination with AltKeys
   When using AltKeys to enter foreign and special characters, the CapsLock LED will flash whilst in compose mode. KeyLEDs will respond correctly to the compose mode and the bottom LED (CapsLock) will be flashing.
 More about AltKeys

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