[ShaunHH]

If you go to Settings->Touch & Pedal Settings->Pedal Actions, you can map keys to actions. This is currently designed around pedals (and there are only 6 switch pedals max), so you can only assign 6 keys. I may add a more elaborate key mapping configuration dialog for PC's a later point so users can configure an unlimited number of key mappings.

What kind of actions do you need to be able to perform with the keyboard? The app is definitely easier to use if your screen has touch support. It will be tedious to do things like select songs otherwise (you'll have to tab around and then use the arrow keys to select things).

Mike

Hi Mike, thanks for your reply. 

I'm currently using a USB 3-way pedal unit which I've mapped keys to send <left> <right> keys, etc..

> What kind of actions do you need to be able to perform with the keyboard?
Pretty much all the main app menu  functions - searching and opening songs, navigate through the pdfs, start & stop the metronome /media . Ideally all user configurable...

>The app is definitely easier to use if your screen has touch support. 
From a keyboard perspective its just not very usable or intuitive at the moment :-(
Even if I had a touch sensitive screen it would be inefficient because of the continuous back-and-forth between screen/keyboard, rather than keyboard/mouse.
I'm in front of a digital piano so, want my hands away from the (piano) keyboard a minimum of time...

If I'm in the Songs section there is no way to select the Search input bar from the keyboard other than hitting the <tab> key 9 times...
Then I can nicely narrow the song down by typing it's name. At this point the menu is displaying only the song that I've selected - and the intuitive thing to do would be to press the <return> key to load it, but that doesn't work... Instead I'll have to press the <tab> key another 9 times and then press <return>.


Once I'm in full screen mode - I can navigate back and forth through the music, but can't return  to the songs menu (i'd expect the <backspace> or the <escape> key to do this )if I want to go back to select another song... instead I have to reach for mouse and several clicks to go back.

It seems like it would be really useful to have keyboard support - even for tablet use - then a user could pair to a bluetooth keyboard and have very speedy access to functions in the app (and it would be even more useful to be able to configure user-defined keyboard shortcuts).

It would be nice to start and stop the metronome by hitting the space bar...

I'm afraid It doesn't seem very practical to use on a Windows 10 PC at the moment - which is a real shame for me. This looked like the perfect app for my pdf music collection...



Is it likely that you might be able to add some keyboard support in a future?


Shaun