From: usenet@andyburns.uk   
      
   Anssi Saari wrote:   
      
   > How do you like your Durgod?   
      
   Pleased with it, physically it feels good, I have the TKL version to   
   save space.   
      
   > I've been thinking about   
   > getting a keyboard with QMK firmware. I've only learned of its existence   
   > recently and played with it on an 8-key mini keyboard. I'm interested in   
   > having some macros in the keyboard in a convenient way. My current   
   > fnatic one requires macros to be typed in.   
      
   After the initial load of the QMK firmware (bit of a learning process   
   involving opening it up, shorting a couple of tracks while plugging-in,   
   then loading zadig driver, rebooting it into firmware loader mode) you   
   have two ways to create the config files for it   
      
   either a web GUI that allows redefining each key, on multiple "layers"   
   with certain hotkeys to swap into those layers, that results in a new   
   binary file to flash into it, the procedure being much simpler after the   
   first load.   
      
   or you can customise a keymap usimg a programming language, compile then   
   load it the same way, I think you'd need to use this method if you want   
   to make multi-character macro strings per key (with e.g. Fn as the   
   trigger for them).   
      
   I haven't needed to use the compiler yet, just the GUI, e.g. without a   
   numpad I couldn't enter Alt-codes, so I've added a layer to allow   
   substituting number0-9 as numpad0-9m I've also mapped the media   
   play/pause/stop/ff/rew keys.   
      
   > I managed to put in some self-defined macros in that mini-keyboard but   
   > those went right into the firmware. So just curious, do you have macros   
   > in your Durgod with QMK? The kind you can just easily copy-paste in and   
   > just as easily remove when not needed any longer?   
      
   I think it can only write to the keyboard's flash when you put it into   
   firmware mode, so probably not as easy as that ...   
      
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