Newbie question: How do I set my touchbar to simply default to function keys for a game?

[JRoseland]

This doesn't seem like it should be so complicated to figure out. I just want the touch bar to display the function keys (F1, F2, F3, etc) for a game that requires them.

This is what I've configured for Battlezone2.exe

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance, for any support!

[JRoseland]

I purchased a license. Does that entitle me to any customer service here?

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

No, a license does not include that / entitle to anything here. I try my best to help as good as possible in this forum, but I can't answer everything.

However you can set up any Touch Bar button in BTT and also set them up app specific:
https://docs.folivora.ai/docs/402_touch_bar_basics.html

So you could probably create buttons for F1-F12 that send the F Key Shortcuts you need.

[libror]

I'm on the same mission. If you get a layout set up before I do, could you share it?

I need a few f keys for work (like f9 in MS Word to update fields) and have tried sending the keystroke but first you have to be able to press f9 in order to record it, and there's no f9 to press. There must be some way to show the standard touch bar in order to do this...

[Andreas_Hegenberg]

you can use the macOS virtual keyboard to record:

[libror]

I found two Mac pref settings that might get us there

• system prefs > keyboard > keyboard shortcuts > function keys
• system prefs > keyboard > touch bar settings > touch bar shows > function keys

There's also a system pref somewhere to list apps where the f keys are shown but I can't find it right now

And a setting somewhere to make the fn key into a keyboard layout switcher (I use several layouts so I think that I need it for that – but cmd-[ and cmd-] also work for scrolling through them).

[libror]

I decided that, if I was going to do it, I might as well pick an interesting case, and you can edit this to show fn 1, fn 2, etc.

Oxygen Not Included

Function keys for the game's display panels Icons from SF Symbols. They do not match the game's icons but I think that they are much easier to read. "more" button goes to brightness and volume sliders. Screenshots (optional) [image] OxygenNotIncluded_export.bttpreset (160.7 KB)

[libror]

Is there a way to record from the Emoji & Symbols viewer?

The situation is that I want to paste certain characters but using the "paste" process results in their being interpreted as words, rather than as keystrokes. So they end up with a space after them. Microsoft Word is the offender here.

To give an example, the minus sign. It's missing from every keyboard, resulting in millions of people typing millions of hyphens instead.