Problems with USB keyboard (keydown and inkey)

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Amnesie Guru Joined: 30/06/2020 Location: Germany Posts: 757	Posted: 04:52pm 02 Oct 2025         matherp said   If I understand what you are trying to do, you probably don't need MM.USB at all. Keydown[1] gives you the last key pressed as an ascii character and keydown[7] tells you if any modifier keys are pressed. Together they should allow you program to work out any accented character. Just don't use input$ at all. Hi Peter, thanks for quick reply! I already did it like you suggested, but I think you can't try this because you haven't a german keyboard. The whole reason asking for something like MM.USB is the fact that: keydown(1) does NOT respond to the german keyboard keys "äöüß" so there is nothing I could further process or re-map. In other words: Do Print keyDown(1) Loop does not print anything if I hit "ä","ü","ö","ß" The solution (or at least part of it) is your new function MM.USB, only here I have the chance to "catch" any output from the mentioned keys. So my only chance is to do the following: 1. read the raw key (ä,ö,ü,ß) via MM.USB 2. check via keyDown(7) if SHIFT-key is pressed 3. manually map the "ä,ö,ü,ß / Ä, Ü, Ö, ?" to a custom FONT, which Martin kindly created Problem: as soon as I use "keyDown(7)" everything is "laggy", keypresses are skipped or ignored. With PS/2 I did the same (only of course with MM.Info(PS2)) and it works just perfect! No missed keys, no latency at all. I hoped, that this workaround would also work for the USB version. This way one could implement ANY keyboard layout. Greetings Daniel Edited 2025-10-03 02:56 by Amnesie