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Historically, if you have tried to play a game needing left/right keys on an HTC Touch Diamond, you noticed that they are 2mm wide which resuls in many mishits. Dredger97 decided to write a program allowing you to lock these 4 key actions and replace it by classical key events (VK_LEFT, VK_RIGHT, etc). That way, you can play tetris and use “Pick-Up” and “Hang-Up” keys for going left and right.

He also extended it to let you configure each app independently and choose between four (five) modes:

* “HardKeySimul”: replace the 4 keyz by classical key event
* “Launcher”: allow you to quicklaunch 4 app (that you define in the config wnd) when you double tap (not click, just tap) on one of those 4 keyz
* “Scroll”: allow you to scroll the current window by tapping those 4 keyz panel
* “KeySimul”: allow you to send left/right/up/down events by tapping those 4 keyz panel
* “— Disabled —”: Disable specific HTC Touch Diamond Sensor functionalities.

Note: Now DredSensor should be compatible with other devices than HTC Touch Diamond. Please visit developer’s thread for full instructions and tips. You never know what can happen from trying to remap keys. So as a warning, we would like to mention that using such an app on an untested device, may result in the need for a hard reset. The best thing you can do is ask questions to the developer or in the XDA thread if you’re not sure you want to take the risk.

New features in v1.3a:

* Added an alternative key mapping that Should be compatible with any Windows Mobile device.
* Added the “KeepAlive” option. Check this if you want DredSensor to prevent the smartphone to sleep when this application is loaded.
* Added possibility to Enable/Disable DredSensor:

To use it, you need:

1) A Windows Mobile SmartPhone
2) Install the .cab
3) Reboot your SmartPhone
4) Run a game (or app or …)
5) Get your stylus out and back-in, in less than 1 second
6) Click “Yes”

A config window opens:

7) Choose the Type you want.
8 ) Reassign the actions to the events, if needed.
9) Assign “other key mapping”, if needed.
10) Click “Ok”

Other Key Mapping:

To add a key mapping, a popup opens and ask you to press a key.
If you want to assign an action to normal clic, just clic on the choosen key.
If you want to assign an action to long clic, clic more thant 1 sec on the choosen key.
Then you have to choose the action, and it’s done.

If you only assign an action to a long clic on a key, a short clic on this key should work transparently.

Tags: dpad, dredsensor, Games