News - StarKeys-vMFD

Fixed Left ALT

Larry Grant — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 18:22:09 +0000

Left Alt (LALT) should now properly register as the Left Alt key, not the right Alt key

No More Expiration Date

Larry Grant — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 14:58:24 +0000

Hi all, I know I’ve not updated in a while. I just wanted to share that for 2021, I’ve removed the expiration counter in StarKeys-vmfd, so the current 0.08a copy will run indefinitely. I hope you enjoy and continue to find value in using StarKeys. Thank you for all the support.

May release update

Larry Grant — Thu, 02 May 2019 03:30:33 +0000

Although we’re still working on the final tweaks for the community portal panel site, we’ve just updated the PC app with a new expiration date of 6/1/2019 so feel free to download the latest version to keep using StarKeys-vMFD.

Also, all the function keys are working fine, so feel free to map any of them, including F7. The earlier reported issue was actually due to a conflict with another driver. In our case it was the TrackIR software interfering with F7, F9 and F10. If you too experience keys not working right, it may be due to a conflicting driver, so keep your own eyes out for that.

New Alpha v0.04a has been released

Larry Grant — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:58:34 +0000

I’d like to announce the release of StarKeys-vMFD Alpha v0.04a. This is an open and free alpha test phase, available to everyone, and capable of supporting any/all PC based games. Please visit our community portal for the latest downloads at http://www.starkeys-vmfd.com/

StarKeys-vMFD is a virtual controller for a tablet, smartphone or touch screen PC. It can be used to send commands to your favorite game such as raise/lower landing gear, power on, calibrate jump engines, engage jump drives, and so on.

This latest release offers many new enhancements including:

Star Citizen Template updated to support new SC 3.5 release
Desktop Favorites released to demonstrate how the RUN command can be used to launch your favorite shortcuts
New Delay timers added (for Elite Dangerous) for how long to hold a key during a normal key press, and how long to delay between key presses to more closely simulate a human delay. We found some apps would lose key presses if the duration were too short
Ability to load upto 6 different macro files at once, to support up to 6 separate game panels at once. Plus, if you want to go beyond 6 panels, you just need to merge multiple macro files into one larger macro if needed
Ability to create a login through the PC Host app, then when logging in with that login on both the PC and the web client game panel we’ll automatically try and sync the Host IP to the Game Panel, and the unique Macro File ID to the game panel to ensure proper interaction between the Game Panel and the PC Host.
Ability to upload your own custom game panels to the community portal for private testing. And we’ll be adding the ability to submit a game panel for review by the community in the coming weeks.

We hope you enjoy this release and value your feedback. Please use our Discord channel to communicate with us

New Alpha v0.04a release imminent!!

Larry Grant — Sun, 31 Mar 2019 18:48:37 +0000

There may be a short interruption of things not working as I roll out the newest April build. You’ll need to download the new v0.04a client to use in conjunction with new sample panels.

Any downloaded panels will need to use the latest games.starkeys-vfmd.com/js/starkeys-vfmd.js

All new panels synchronize their macro files using a fileid parameter. You must have a unique value for every macro file loaded at the same time, such as:
"fileid": {
"value": "1",
"description": "This is for StarCitizen 3.5 alpha"
},

When a panel is uploaded using our new “upload” service, we’ll automatically generate a new fileid, but for now if you’re testing from home manually you’ll need to create the fileid field in your macro file.

Fix for Elite Dangerous Function Keys not working

Larry Grant — Sat, 09 Mar 2019 05:08:43 +0000

Function keys mapped in the Elite Dangerous mapping file such as “{F5}” for the Galaxy Map aren’t working. ED is sensitive to a quick key press vs held, especially for function keys. And, holding it on the tablet, doesn’t actually generate a longer key press.

A temporary workaround to get a longer key press use +1 to hold the key for 1 second. So change all the function keys similar to this: “+1{F5}”

In the next patch we’ll have a built in hold of 100ms for any key press, and you’ll be able to override this default, but in testing it seems to work reliably.

Also, I’ve added a default delay between keys of 10ms, as I’ve noticed some apps can’t react quick enough to the incoming keys if there’s no delay

Next patch is targeted for the end of March

StarKeys-vMFD open alpha has been released to the public

Larry Grant — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 21:03:59 +0000

StarKeys-vMFD is a virtual game controller for a tablet or smart phone, or even PC/laptop/chromebook. The alpha includes a gaming client panel for StarCitizen and Elite Dangerous. It's not like some others that have a highly immersive client out of the gate. Instead it's kept simple for testing, but StarKeys-vMFD stands out as its fully customizable and intended to let the community build their own custom game panels, and share them easily with the rest of the community. Therefore, it's capable of those crazy immersive panels if you want them (and its easy to do) but I've found I don't personally like jumping to several panels to get to a button. I like one panel that's got everything on it, so in this alpha my first panel for SC is 25 keys (5 rows by 5 columns), but still manages to fit nicely on most devices. It has all the main things I want, but is easily adapted if you have your own needs.

Thanks everyone, and I look forward to hearing from you on the discord, and seeing you "Around the Verse"

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