microsoft / microsoft/PowerToys
add "Scan Code" Mode to catch the uncaptured key
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Idea-Enhancement
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Product-Keyboard Shortcut Manager
- Dominant language
- C
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Description
Description of the new feature / enhancement
Some advanced mapping tools (like SharpKeys) can recognize Scan Codes in addition to VK codes. Is it possible that add "Enter Scan Code Mode." so that some special key be scanned?
thanks a lot
Scenario when this would be used?
some foreign keyboard
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Research direction
Start by locating the PowerToys Keyboard Manager entry point and its existing virtual-key mapping flow; the issue names no file or test. Compare the requested Scan Code Mode with current mapping behavior on a foreign keyboard, and define completion as recognizing and mapping the previously uncaptured key.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100