Maps

The TextBlade comes with a number of pre-configured maps to support major language variants; however, one of its great strengths is the ability to customize maps to suit particular preferences via the TextBlade app (as long as you have the MultiMap capability). At the moment the TextBlade app is only available on Apple iOS devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod), but there are plans for it to be ported to other OS's in the future.

WayTools provide a library of pre-configured maps which can be used either as-is, or as the starting point for any customization you want to make. The library is held on the WayTools servers so they can easily add new maps or alter existing ones.

The current list of standard Library maps (as of October 2018) are called:

QWERTY

UK

QWERTZ

AZERTY

Spanish

Portuguese

Italian

Swedish

Finnish

Danish

Norwegian

Dvorak

Colemak

Emoji

QWERTY Num

Emacs Both

Emacs Pinky

Click on the name of one of the above if you want to see the details of that particular map.

It is presumed that WayTools are likely to offer custom key tops corresponding to most (if not all) of the standard default maps). On that basis points to note are:

• The 'white' letters on the keytops correspond to the standard Alpha layer (and where relevant the Alpha shift layer).
• The 'green' symbols on the keytops correspond to the standard Green layer (and where relevant the Green shift layer).
• The left blade has engraved indications of the chord to be used for the Media, Select and Edit layers. The right blade has engraved meanings for the standard Edit layer (and thus Select layer where relevant).
• However since none of these keytops have (yet) been shipped to TREG testers (all current TREG units ship with QWERTY keytops) the above points are only supposition.

When producing customized maps the normal alphanumeric characters can be assigned simply by tapping on the location you wish to assign and then typing the character on an existing keyboard. There are also a lot of special characters that are available for assigning to key positions. In addition, common keyboard shortcuts are assigned so that they can always be keyed the same way regardless of the target operating system. The symbols available are organized in a scrollable window with blocks of related symbols. The ones currently available are:

The following tables gives more information what each of these selections does. Note that Modifiers can be used in conjunction with any non-modifier sequence. The table is in the order that the characters are displayed on the selection strip.

Symbol	Name	Description/Comments	Operating System Specific
			MacOS	iOS	Windows	Linux	Android	ChromeOS
	Shift	Provides shift to next character typed. Operates in 'Sticky mode so it does not have to be held down while next character is typed
	Command	Modifier widely used on MacOS and iOS. Tends to be the equivalent in many cases of the Ctrl key used on Windows. On a jump slot set for Windows/Linux this key is treated as the the Win key.	⌘	⌘	Win	Win
	Alt/Option	Modifier widely used on all OS. Often combined with other modifiers	⌥	⌥	Alt	Alt	Alt
	Control	Modifier widely used on Windows and Linux. On iOS/MacOS the CMD key tends to be used instead	Ctrl	Ctrl	Ctrl	Ctrl	Ctrl
	Tab		Tab	Tab	Tab	Tab	Tab
	Home Screen			Home Button Ctrl⌘H
	Enter
	BackSpace	Deletes character before cursor
	Del	Deletes next character	Del	Del	Del	Del	Del
	DelPrev	Deletes previous word	AltBackSpace	AltBackSpace	CtrlBackSpace	CtrlBackSpace	CtrlBackSpace
	DelNext	Deletes next word			CtrlDel
	DelStart	Deletes to Start of Line		⌘Del
	DelEnd	Deletes to End-of-Line
	Escape

Useful online sites for checking exactly what key codes are being sent for any particular map can be found at:

• UnixPapa
• Torinak

MacOS users may find Karabiner as a useful utility for customising and monitoring keycodes.

Windows users may find Keycode3 as a useful utility for monitoring keycodes.

Raspberry Pi users may find that you are mapping your TextBlade for the Raspberry Pi and you have Kodi on your Pi it makes a nice key logger. Just turn on the Kodi debug function and monitor the kodi log with:
tail -f /storage/.kodi/temp/kodi.log | grep OnKey

Many of the maps leave a lot of the keys unassigned, and it is possible to remap most of the pre-supplied character key positions. This section covers some ideas that users have come up with to suit their personal tastes

• An extended Numeric Mode

• Use the unused positions on the Function layer for common modifier sequences that you use. For example the middle row could be used to map ALT-1 to ALT-0.