FN Key/Music controls

Hello, while clicked into the game im boxing (D3) i am unable to use the FN/Music Special keys. i dont know if this is already a thing or maybe its thinking its a different value that goes into a macro or something, but it would be nice not to have to pause gaming to change the music ever couple of minuets.

[bob]

Music/ special FN keys are usually handled by your keyboards special software, and thus need that special software to be run as admin.

Music/ special FN keys are usually handled by your keyboards special software, and thus need that special software to be run as admin.

Hmm, not sure about that im using a razor board with no software and if i click out of game i can hit the keys and they work ex FN+F6=Play/Pause, also if you take a laptop/desktop and do a fresh install on it FN keys can still be called, the drivers themselves have the information on the FN key and what other keys, otherwise if it was software when you did a fresh install all PC would be like F1 thru F6 or something until you installed the software for the board which told you this goes to this.

[bob]

The FN key is not a standard keycode and it requires a specific driver per keyboard to determine what the source key will be changing into.

i.e. on your keyboard FN+F6 is play/pause, on another keyboard it might be FN+3 (on my laptop it is FN+T).

It is the keyboard driver/special software which is mapping the FN+ some variable key to the specific media play keycodes (which are standardised). It is possible you have a hardware implementation, but that would be a first without having a dedicated media key.

Code:

Public Const VK_VOLUME_MUTE                  As Long = &HAD      ' Volume Mute key
Public Const VK_VOLUME_DOWN                  As Long = &HAE      ' Volume Down key
Public Const VK_VOLUME_UP                    As Long = &HAF      ' Volume Up key
Public Const VK_MEDIA_NEXT_TRACK             As Long = &HB0      ' Next Track key
Public Const VK_MEDIA_PREV_TRACK             As Long = &HB1      ' Previous Track key
Public Const VK_MEDIA_STOP                   As Long = &HB2      ' Stop Media key
Public Const VK_MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE             As Long = &HB3      ' Play/Pause Media key

edit: the problem you may be getting is that ISBoxer may be seeing the F6 key, and grabbing it before the keycode output can be changed, or it may be causing the remap from the FN+F6. Idk on that front. In my case, I loaded the keyboard software, ran as admin, worky fine.

The FN key is not a standard keycode and it requires a specific driver per keyboard to determine what the source key will be changing into.

i.e. on your keyboard FN+F6 is play/pause, on another keyboard it might be FN+3 (on my laptop it is FN+T).

It is the keyboard driver/special software which is mapping the FN+ some variable key to the specific media play keycodes (which are standardised). It is possible you have a hardware implementation, but that would be a first without having a dedicated media key.

Code:

Public Const VK_VOLUME_MUTE                  As Long = &HAD      ' Volume Mute key
Public Const VK_VOLUME_DOWN                  As Long = &HAE      ' Volume Down key
Public Const VK_VOLUME_UP                    As Long = &HAF      ' Volume Up key
Public Const VK_MEDIA_NEXT_TRACK             As Long = &HB0      ' Next Track key
Public Const VK_MEDIA_PREV_TRACK             As Long = &HB1      ' Previous Track key
Public Const VK_MEDIA_STOP                   As Long = &HB2      ' Stop Media key
Public Const VK_MEDIA_PLAY_PAUSE             As Long = &HB3      ' Play/Pause Media key

edit: the problem you may be getting is that ISBoxer may be seeing the F6 key, and grabbing it before the keycode output can be changed, or it may be causing the remap from the FN+F6. Idk on that front. In my case, I loaded the keyboard software, ran as admin, worky fine.

God i hope its just something in isboxer i can change, razor software is the fucking plague. Thanks for the help btw.

Alright so under ISboxer suite File>Edit Inpute Devices, i can see my Device 3 choices first is 573 Inpute(1532-011C Razer Black Widow) and one for 3 inputs and 1 input.

But from here IDK what new Key Set does, i mean its just naming it so whats that supposed to do, im assuming pretty heavily that this menu should be my first step.

[bob]

And just so everyone else knows. Much reading on FN keys ensued, and it was determined the problem was...

The software to receive the media keys will need to run as admin while boxing, much in the same way that Vent or other software with global hotkeys keys will need to run as admin, because IS is running the games as admin processes and a non admin level process doesn't get passed hotkey input when an admin process has the current focus.

That should have been the first thought....