How-To: Switch-over Your S60 Phone Key Mappings Hereby VirtualKey
Succedaneum your key mappings with VirtualKey.<\p>
ATOM recently discovered the S60 filigree VirtualKey after customary on the hunt for a honorable key remapping application. It's easy in order to use, sufficiently powerful, and best of all, it actually runs on S60 Fifth Conflation.<\p>
There's a caveat, however: VirtualKey is an unsigned application, which means you might be in for a abundance of hurt. Therewith on this after the harden.<\p>
The Duck<\p>
First, as mentioned before, you'll need to subsume some way so as to run unsigned applications. The easiest carte blanche is to obtain a developer's certificate, and this can be done from the OPDA scene of action.<\p>
Second, you'll need the actual program: download it here. The official site is here, but the site's rapport Chinese and you want to register to get at the programs. A bit regarding a pain. Note that this is version 1.00. The contemporary version is 1.10, but I could not get the several variations upon 1.10 working on either my 5800XM or my N97. Maybe S60 Third Reissue users will deceive an easier term.<\p>
VirtualKey: Adding different key mappings.<\p>
VirtualKey: Changing the amplification map.<\p>
VirtualKey: The Include\Exclude Menu<\p>
VirtualKey: You can make your continental island mappings available to well-grounded applications.<\p>
Realign your suggestion mappings with VirtualKey.<\p>
Changing the Key Mappings<\p>
Once you've successfully ensconced VirtualKey, scorching the goods upalong! At first you'll see a mostly blank screen that reads €(plumper data)€ - this screen shows your current changed keymaps. Let's try modifying clever keys to test yourself out.<\p>
Click on Options -> Add. At this screen you'll need to press the key that inner man prefer to modify, followed by the replacement key. Extra keys that you can't actually press without activating (such as the Camera and Menu keys) can be found in Options -> Special shut.<\p>
There's a lot of powers at present for some really cool stuff. Alter ego encase, for example, change the Volume Up\Down keys to biform the functionality of the Books key (see Things to Remember in the world if you're common this route), or remove the functionality of your Solving Stake key good-bye assigning it to something random.<\p>
My keymap whereupon the N97 has three entries:<\p>
}RFunc} => }LFunc} }LFunc} => }RFunc} }Camera} => }No}<\p>
This has the significance of swapping my QWERTY keyboard's Symbol and Function key, and changing the Camera key to act identically a Cancel button. Sounds weird, right? I have a bad wear of accidentally hitting my Photocopier key when attempting headed for clip the Menu button. This way, if I hit the Camera key by mistake, I can then press it again to close it. Sounds silly, I know, but it works.<\p>
Inclusions\Exclusions<\p>
One nice feature in VirtualKey is the ability to reidentify your new key mappings unemployable or unavailable to certain applications. To access this, fire to the Settings page in VirtualKey (in other words, the default page that opens first) - then, stem the right arrow next to it. You be forced change towards Exclude (unavailable so whatever applications), and alter ego be up to perfuse to Include by going to Options -> Change syllogism -> Include. You can't have an inclusion and an exclusion running at the same time - it's one lozenge the other.<\p>
Adding an tie-up\exclusion is equivalently somber as going to Options -> Add barring running or Add from seated, both referring in transit to whether an stability is currently open or installed. If superego wanted to make a achromatism map only just fellow feeling the browser, seeing that example, you'd switch so Include mode and go to Add from installed -> Browser (alternatively, if you have the browser open, you could just do Add save running).<\p>
Things till Remember<\p>
1. Certain keys can be mapped, nevertheless not replaced. Example: any major key on the N97 QWERTY that is worse will lose its previous functionality and will only function as the further lobbyist. In contemplation of if I map the Q button unto the L button, the L bequeath always come out instead as for the Q. However, if they remap the X-ray machine key, her determine still automatically run the Tripod camera application. And strangely bare sufficiency, if you modify the End Call key (normally ends calls and goes back so the Home screen no matter what), the very thing will no longer quit programs, end calls, yale reoccur headed for the Home advocate.<\p>
2. VirtualKey does not function on the Home screen of S60 Fifth Edition phones. EGO wasn't up-and-coming to test this on S60 Third Edition, after all custom access mappings will not work in transit to the Sick bay arm.<\p>
3. The Volume Keys on S60 Fifth Libretto phones are weird. And by monstrous, I mean myself can't radio set them individually. If you attempted this, you might have noticed that the software doesn't recognize the Vol. Up or Down tiara when pressed alone. However, at all events you press sole harmonize, and later slide your finger down so the genuine article presses the not the same, it works. VirtualKey disposition map the last button you press, so if subconscious self press Vol. Up and and all slide it en route to Vol. Down, it'll daresay you pressed Vol. Plain. I don't know if this is a limitation pertaining to the software, or the firmware, or the phone hardware. In substance this makes the Volume pallium a little annoying to engineer.<\p>
