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I'm still using my trusty IBM Model M keyboard, I think I had it for over 20 years now and it was used when I got it, built like a tank. This thing has had countless cups of coffee spilt in it, cats knocked over various sodas on it.. took it apart each time and rinced it and it was good as new.

I'd like one of those fancy Gxx keyboards, esp. the ones with the progammable display, but I know it's not going to last long here. My DX1 is off to the side so it's been safe so far

Here is the Shuttle PRO v2 from Contour Design currently listed at $109 USD.

There are set of nine keys at the top and four more at the bottom with two side keys. The jog wheel is centered inside of spring loaded shuttle wheel. I have three setups for use with TVP.. Drawing, Editing, and Animating. I page through these different setups using the side keys... left key is for previous page, right key is for next page. Popup at system tray at bottom of screen to tell you what setup page is currently active.

So, when in Drawing mode I use jog wheel to increase/decrease brush size. When in editing mode I use jog/shuttle wheels to move forward/backward through frames.. you get the idea!

Shuttle PRO knows what setup to use because of Windows focus. All software on your computer can be setup for use with this device. This is NOT a mouse! It only provides additional hotkeys for your use.

I am left handed. I have my tablet in front of me, stylus in my left hand, Shuttle PRO right side of my Intuous4, optical mouse sitting next to Shuttle PRO. My Logitech G11 keyboard sits in keyboard tray. Gateway widescreen notebook sits on shelf elevated above the Intuous4. It works for me

regards,
William

Thanks for explaining, William.

Woh, that's crazy ! I didn't knew such a thing does exist, if must be really efficient !

It is very efficient with both sound and video... use jog/shuttle wheels for editing...
It will work for all of your software hotkeys by recognizing application with current window focus.

Is there are way to switch TVP keymaps on the fly? That would work very nicely with Shuttle PRO concept

You could create a small script with autohotkey that fired of the right keys to load the key editor and click the load button to load different keymaps.

That would be relatively simply with AHK, it's my swiss army knife, there's not much you can't automate with it.

TVP keymaps affect operation of TVP and I would like to stay internal to TVP all the way with this. AHK macros are nice for workarounds where there are no other viable solutions, but present need for additional consideration since they affect all applications. I see that there is updated version of AHK... will install it and see what happens

Just wrap your script and keycode triggers like this:

#ifWinActive ahk_class TVP Animation 9 Pro
{
NumLock::
{
Send {control down}p{control up}
Sleep, 100
return
}
}

Then the script will only trigger when TVPaint has the front focus.

interesting....

I wonder if Rooms in TVP9PRO can be used to swap keymaps???

masterchief wrote:interesting....

I wonder if Rooms in TVP9PRO can be used to swap keymaps???

each room can have its own keyboard short cuts if thats what you mean?

not necessarily....
Lets take the 'A' key as an exmaple... I assign a shortcut to that key and SAVE the keyboard map as a file because I have changed the DEFAULT mappings.
I change the shortcut for the letter 'A' again and save the keyboard map as a different file. The only way to gain access to these multiple shortcuts is by swapping Keyboard map files.