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Help Programming Media Controls To Keyboard?

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My friend gave me his Ducky Zero, I upgraded from a G710 which had media controls. I like the feel of the Ducky, but it does not have any media controls. It does have volume controls, and a function key. There is a program called "AutoHotkey" which programs keyboard bindings. The issue is that I don't have a clue on how to program for such a thing, because the only time I've programmed something was for school, and i failed the project. If anyone has experience, I would like to know how I can program the FN key to give secondary functions to the volume control keys, those secondary options being: play/pause, forward and back for media controls. I know there are plently of tutorials online, but i don't have enough time to do a crash course on this specific function. Thanks in advance.  

 

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There's a program called SharpKeys that allows you to use the registry to map buttons to media controls. It's open source and available on Codeplex: https://sharpkeys.codeplex.com/

I currently use it to map useless buttons like insert, end and pause to play/pause, previous and next. No programming is needed to map the keys.

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15 hours ago, burnttoastnice said:

There's a program called SharpKeys that allows you to use the registry to map buttons to media controls. It's open source and available on Codeplex: https://sharpkeys.codeplex.com/

I currently use it to map useless buttons like insert, end and pause to play/pause, previous and next. No programming is needed to map the keys.

thank you so much for the reply. I'll be sure to check it out. 

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