Logitech G15 MxO Applet (Beta)

**WoKeN**

Do you guys that have this keyboard like it?I'm using my 2 year old plain hp keyboard and it's well horrible ;p

**LoTekGhost** · 08/30/2008 11:27:24

WoKeN wrote:

Do you guys that have this keyboard like it?I'm using my 2 year old plain hp keyboard and it's well horrible ;pI like it personally.

The keys are a good size, and have good response (at least good enough for me). The only thing that takes time (at least for me) to get used to was the size of the Ctrl and Tab keys (a bit smaller than what I'm used to) due to the placement of the G keys on the left-side of the keyboard. The Escape key is a bit closer than I was used to as well, but I'm getting used to it along with the Tab and Ctrl. If you can get around that, it's all good.
The lighting is great for night gaming and low-lit rooms (keys come in mostly clear, a few areas have spotty shadows on the actual character display...but if you're a touch-typist like me, it doesn't matter). The lighting also has 3 settings; low, high, and off, so you can adjust it to your liking.
The game-specific apps that tend not to be all that great IMO (I usually look to my screen for vitals), but some have good features like game Mail notification and current amount of cash/inventory left. However, 3 of the default apps are nifty: Time Date display, Stopwatch/Countdown display (great for timing spawns and whatnot), Computer resource use display (shows dynamic CPU/RAM usage on the display). The other apps that I like out of game are the XFire (shows sent messages in the LCD) and the Windows Media Player app (shows song title, artist, time and movie/scene titles when watching DVDs).
The Windows-key disable switch is great too, especially if you use Alt and Ctrl a lot and have mis-hit the Windows key before.
The wrist-support attachment is a cheap piece of plastic, but it gets the job done in that department.
The G keys can be quite useful both in and out of game. They have great applications in apps like Photoshop, Word, etc. In-game, I've used them for stuff like potions and consumables (in other games, haven't added any for MxO yet. You get a total of 18 G keys (there are 6 physical keys, but 3 separate Modes, so 6x3=18). You can program macros both in and out of game, using either the MR - Macro Record key - for in-game, or the Game Profile app outside).

This review comes from about 3 weeks of personal ownership, feel free to ask about other features if you have questions too. Hope that helped!

**phi** · 08/30/2008 22:26:05

I have a G11 (I figured that there's nothing in any game that I need to see on the Keyboard display) and it has 18 "G" buttons. the g-buttons have 3 memory modes (that's 54 programmable functions).

Of course you can give each game it's own profile, so that's 54 buttons per game or application... that's a lot of custom buttons.

The buttons are broken up like so:

G1 G2 G3
G4 G5 G6

G7 G8 G9
G10 G11 G12

G13 G14 G15
G16 G17 G18

The top set are basic emotes (on my system): /sit, /tiphat, /cheer, /wave, /bow etc...

The middle set are set loaders: /loadlo MA etc...

the bottom set are chat modes: /say /tc /cc /fc with G17 & G18 = xfire chat and Xfire screenshot

Despite all this usefullness I do find that the in game chatbox macros (any commands beginning with a "/") don't work properly if they run too fast and you need to tweak any recorded macros by inserting a .05 second delay between the last keystroke and the Enter key. But that's only because my macros are set to record events only not time delays (so the macros type much faster than human input).

**Hanzyl and Gretyl**

I'll share my g15 profile with anyone who wants to have it. Just send me a PM with your email address.

Interested with what others have done with theirs to see if i'm getting the most out of it.

**GreyMountain**

I currently have SirReal's Panel on my G15. It is semi-customisable and allows loads of info to be displayed at once (rather than cycling through other apps.) For example, on mine I have Date, Time, MCT Time, CPU and RAM Usage, Network Activity, Speaker Arrangment, TS, FRAPS framerate, WinAmp and probably more.

**LtCmdr_Tsusai**

Update: It looks like with some more clever coding, it looks like I can stretch the pixels I've captured just a bit to make it into an actual gauge on the G15 (124x1 stretched to 124x3 or so), and I'll put that image on there. I'm also looking at improving the game detection (is it running? is it the active window? (these are already there, just need to rearrange it in the code)) and adding messages like "Jack In" or "Vitals Unavailable"

So far its vitals and MCT time, and they still look feasible to add. Is there anything else you guys can think of that might be interesting?

**aracher**

Current loadout maybe not sure if that is possible

**LtCmdr_Tsusai**

I can't hack into the client for that level of details ><

**LtCmdr_Tsusai** · 08/31/2008 17:27:20

Someone asked if the next time I posted a pic, it wasn't so....un-descriptive.
Well, here we go. Pulling HP and IS bars for reading. Working with this image before I send to the LCD (All I have to do is put in SendToLCD();

**Dr5mith**

I've been watching this thread with interst as i've had the g15 for about a year now and luv it completely! Tho I'm a nub at programming (i'm a builder not a coder!!!) I'm very interested in where your going Tsusai!. I'm willing to test anything you want on my unit. If you want i'll send you the specs as I just built it about 4 months ago.

**LtCmdr_Tsusai** · 08/31/2008 19:45:09

Thanks, although sometimes I wish I could trade some of this coding stuff in for art talent.
Rearranged the stuff. All I think I have to do now, is cleanup / document my code, set it up on a timer, and make a configure section to find launcher.exe or your own personal shortcut. Oh course, this end product will NOT have this lovely interface SMILEY

**Dr5mith**

Looking good man....so what ya want for it? some beerskis? Digital Chonic(see meh DownTown)? my Seeester?

**LtCmdr_Tsusai**

Labor Day Update.

I got it all cleaned up and the such, but ran into an issue. The premade helper component that links my app to the LCD, is a P.O.S. It actually causes Access Violations when the keyboard isn't there, so I'm bugfixing someone else's code before I release.

**Resident**

Hey Tsu, do you want better quality images made for that thing?

**Procurator**

Clever stuff! SMILEY

Have to say, though, I don't much see the point in an LCD on the keyboard. I can just look at the monitor - which I'm doing anyway. The G11 sounds cool, though. Oh, the things I could do with those extra buttons. >_>