I recently bought an Adafruit Macropad to make my inkscaping more efficient. I wanted to give it a bit of a lift to make it ergonomic and to allow me to read the display without having to lean over it. Here is what I came up with…
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Hey, that’s pretty handy!
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No idea what a Adafruit Macropad is 
but that is AWESOME! (Running to Google now…) 
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There’s a bit of set up with it but they have a guide to walk you through the basics. I’m using it for the macro functionality but it’s capable of way much more.
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You are quite correct. Forgive my oversight and thank you for doing the deed.
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That’s nice, maybe post your set up for Inkscape? I don’t think that is too far afield as there is a bunch of us who use it.
I don’t have this one, yet, but I do ancillary keyboards galore.
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Very nice! I was looking to make one from scratch, but the kit makes it lot easier to source the parts.
Here ya go…
# MACROPAD Hotkeys example
from adafruit_hid.keycode import Keycode # REQUIRED if using Keycode.* values
app = { # REQUIRED dict, must be named 'app'
'name' : 'Inkscape', # Application name
'macros' : [ # List of button macros...
# COLOR LABEL KEY SEQUENCE
# 1st row ----------
(0x400000, 'Undo', [Keycode.CONTROL, 'z']), # Undo Last Action
(0x000040, 'Select', 's'), # Select Tool
(0x202000, 'ToPath', [Keycode.SHIFT, Keycode.CONTROL, 'c']), # Object to path
# 2nd row ----------
(0x004000, 'Redo', [Keycode.SHIFT, Keycode.CONTROL, 'Z']), # Redo Last action
(0x000040, 'Node', 'n'), # Node Tool
(0x000040, 'Rect', 'r'), # Rectangle Tool
# 3rd row ----------
(0x400000, 'Ungrp', [Keycode.SHIFT, Keycode.CONTROL, 'g']), # UnGroup Selection
(0x400000, 'Break', [Keycode.SHIFT, Keycode.CONTROL, 'k']), # Break Apart Selection
(0x000040, 'Circle', 'e'), # Draw Circle
# 4th row ----------
(0x004000, 'group', [Keycode.CONTROL, 'g']), # Group Selection
(0x004000, 'Combin', [Keycode.CONTROL, 'k']), # Combine Selection
(0x000040, 'Text', 't'), # Text tool
# Encoder button ---
(0x000000, '', [Keycode.CONTROL, 's']) # Save
]
}
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thanks,
I’ll definitely deconstruct this.
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That’s just the macro file there is accompanying code that runs on the root of the device that is required to process the macro code.
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Most cool, thanks for sharing!
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Cool! Thank you!