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Keyboard Wizard is a mod helps with solving key conflicts and finding unbound keys. It adds an "extra" controls gui that displays an interactive keyboard in the center.
Screenshots:
Features/Explanation:
Keyboard Wizard can be opened by pressing F7 or clicking the added button in the controls gui (which can be removed in the config if desired).
When you open the gui you will see list of keybindings on the left, and a colored keyboard on the right.
- White keys are unbound
- Green keys have only one binding
- Red keys have more than one binding
Click a key (or the mouse button) to set the binding selected on the left to the key clicked plus the active modifier (see below).
Press the All Bindings button to select the category that will be displayed in the binding list.
Press the Active Modifier button to select the Forge key modifier (control, alt, or shift) that will be applied to newly set bindings.
The binding list on the left can be filtered by binding name using the search box underneath it. You can also filter by key name by typing @ without the brackets. Shift click a key to auto-populate the search bar with the key name.
1.16 UPDATE PROGRESS
I am currently working on updating keyboard wizard to Minecraft version 1.16. I would greatly appreciate anyone who takes the time to submit pull requests over on my GitHub page. The current code is working, but undocumented.
My way of going about this update is a little convoluted, but it's the best way I could come up with. Forge, from my perspective as relative outsider to the mod community, is currently a mess. To be clear, I am not throwing shade at the Forge team. I appreciate all the blood, sweat, and tears they put into making Minecraft modding what it is today, and I wouldn't have made this mod without their work. That said, the obfuscated parameter names in the official Mojang mappings, the discontinuing of what once were the MCP mappings has made it very hard for me to re-learn how to make mods. Luckily, keyboard wizard hardly ever interacted with Forge in the first place. For those reasons, I am doing all current development in Fabric. After I get a working prototype, I will port to Forge (which should, I think, be relatively easy).
Latest Development Progress and Screenshot
I've completed the rendering code for the keyboard and the binding list. Both react to mouse input correctly. Next up will be adding the core feature of keyboard wizard, the abliity to change keybindngs at the click of a button.
Screenshot date: 1/12/2022
I WILL NOT LOOK INTO ISSUES POSTED IN THE COMMENTS.
If you have and issue or find a bug, please post a mod list, relevant logs, and steps to reproduce on GitHub.
Glad to hear you're coming back into the fold, this mod has been sorely missed. Good luck navigating the Forge changes when you get to that point -- you're not the first person I've heard finding them to be an obstacle.
In reply to Manan6619:
Thank you! Most of my code interacts with vanilla stuff, so I'm hoping the port from Fabric to Forge will be relatively painless. I suppose we'll see soon enough.
Hi! I wanted to ask you @Mrnerdy42 if there will be a 1.16.5 mod version. I need it! Your work is beautiful, and I saw it on github. I'm not a programmer but if I could help u another way please lemme know!
In reply to TomyNSDK:
Hello! I'm glad you like the mod :) Yes, there will indeed be a 1.16.5 version! I'm working on it as we speak. There's a sort of long-winded blurb in the main post that explains more about the update effort.
As for help non-programmers like yourself can provide, your encouragement makes me quite happy :)
Certainly! I'd appreciate all the help I can get.
The best thing you could do is clone the GitHub repo (link available on the main post), take a look, and either give me suggestions or create pull requests. Feel free to PM me with any and all questions you have about the code, I'll try to explain things the best I can. I will warn you, the code is almost completely inoperable right now, and it's also poorly documented (my own fault for being lazy). I extend the invitation to anyone and everyone willing to take a crack at helping update :)
I'll put a blurb in the main post with some info I think might be helpful for those who wish to help.
Cheers!
still any hope of 1.16.5/1.17.1?
In reply to TheFluffyOne01:
It's funny you should ask! I have recently graduated college, so I have a lot more free time on my hands now. As such, I have started the process of porting to 1.16.5.
However, in the time I was absent from the community, Mojang decided to overhaul the Minecraft GUI classes, and Forge completed their major rewrite and started the process of retiring MCP. This, combined with my long absence, means that I have re-learn a lot of old stuff and also teach myself a lot of new stuff, so I can't give an ETA at the moment.
In reply to mrnerdy42:
LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
(This mod is epic)
In reply to mrnerdy42:
I'm also super excited to see this for 1.16! Is there any way I or other community members can help? (As for myself, I sadly know even less about MC and Forge's GUI classes than you do, but I know my way around Java and have done some maintaining/fixing of MC mods before.)
thanks
In reply to habibialghifari:
you're welcome
In reply to mrnerdy42:
ok
I certainly hope so, I miss this mod.
In reply to White_Blaze:
So do I, to be honest. It's much more fun coding this than it is coding for work. Thanks for the comment! Cheers
In reply to mrnerdy42:
Your very welcome!
And hopefully your work will cut ya a break at some point.
1.16.5? pleas?
In reply to jimi_blogs:
Life is getting in the way at the moment :( but I have not abandoned the idea of coming back to this after I graduate college.
why hasn't this been ported to newer versions? this is one of the best utility mods ever.
In reply to EpicSOB:
I'm glad you like it! The answer is simply lack of time on my part. I graduate uni in a few months though, so maybe that will change.
Is this client-side or server-side?