Is there a program for creating images of keyboard layouts? The program would be able to put a background image on each key but also provide its text. One could do it in Inkscape or such, but it would be nice to get rid any aligning problems, etc.
Keyboard layout *image* creator
imageskeyboard-layoutsnapshot
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Normally you can uninstall a keyboard using the following method:
- Go to add/remove programs
- Find the keyboard, it should be the same name as the Description field of the project's properties in Keyboard Layout Creator.
- Press Modify
- Choose Remove the keyboard layout
The problem was that I uninstalled it incorrectly and I had to manually remove it.
If you need to manually remove it, here's how I did it:
- Remove the keyboard from the Language and Regional settings:
- Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Languages > Details...
- If it exists as one of the installed services, you should remove it. You can do this by adding another keyboard (e.g.
US
) and making it the default one, then removing the keyboard you are trying to get rid of.
- Open regedit
- Warning: you should backup your registry in case you accidentally delete something important.
- Navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layouts\
- Find the key that represents your keyboard: (referred to as "the key" in following steps)
- It should be in the form
XXXXXXXX
(an 8 hex digit number). - Each key should have values such as: Layout Display Name, Layout File, Layout Id, Layout Product Code, Layout Text.
- The
Layout Text
property should match the keyboard name that you chose. - Mine was near the end and started with an
a
instead of a0
like all the others.
- It should be in the form
- Take a look at the Layout File which should be a
.dll
name. I will refer to it as "the dll" in the following steps. - Look for the dll in
C:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache
and delete it if it exists. - Look for the dll in
C:\WINDOWS\system32
and delete it if it exists. - Go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Keyboard Layout\DosKeybCodes
and see if it has aName
which is equal to the key's name (e.g.XXXXXXXX
) and a value such asen
. If it does, delete it. - Navigate back to the key (from step 5), and delete the entire key.
Use a program like WhatPulse to record which keys are hit, and how many times.
After asking on the FreeNode IRC network about how to get the key frequencies together, a user lead me to this:
- Get your text, such as a program(s), and copy them.
- Go to http://type.trmnl.org/
- Under the buttons, Be Sure to uncheck 'autostart with clipboard contents on paste'
- Then, paste your program into the text box.
- Press Cntrl+Shift+K, which will open a console.
- Type in
count_digraphs()
and press Enter.
The results are read like this: "ar" 7 17 10 "ra"
which means 'ar' was pressed 7 times, 'ra' was pressed 10 times, and all together 'ar' and 'ra' were pressed 17 times together
Best Answer
Try this online Keyboard Layout Editor, where you can print your keyboard layout directly from your Web browser to a PDF/image file or just take screenshots therein.