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--- keyboard Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard detailed evaluation version
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ban until May this year, the preamble
online shopping a new version of Logitech's G15 gaming keyboard, the foreign forums g15forums read Ji-day, to understand the function of a number of G15, where a more detailed introduction to write, I hope the beginning of the Friends can use the G15 to the G15 more features, but hope never used G15 G15's friends can understand ,
1.1
chose the appearance of new G15, one of the reasons is its beautiful orange backlighting, and my G5 mouse, little orange lights above the perfect match, even the The fonts are the same, huh. upper right corner of the little sun symbol keyboard keys are backlight brightness adjustment buttons, there are 3 states --- ; backlight brightness is high the volume of the dial, replacing the key + G key multimedia function keys 6 + 6 + LCD screen controls 5 + win key lock key a + memory function keys the brightness control keys 4 + 1 + mute button 1. at the top there are two USB mouth, but and most USB ports on the keyboard, as some require full access to the equipment will have 5V power supply shortage, such as the ipod, after all, the keyboard itself has spent a lot of power.
behind the keyboard have to go trough, I used a little, not very useful, perhaps in my case the reason behind the keyboard. What kind of equipment can take the line right above the keyboard out of or into the bottom out of it into the top?
1.2 touch
any good keyboard, not previously used to compare with the dell 8115 to talk about the feelings of it. relative DELL 8115, the key is more soft, elastic slightly larger, giving a very soft feel,
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2.1 function key primary
other function keys do not wordy, and what used to see that. only for the memory key and the G keys,
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G key input in two ways, first in Logitech keyboard management software configured in the second, the MR memory key through the keyboard to configure.
in the management of the software interface, the default is a Efficiency is the After the G keys on the keyboard LCD screen can also display the name of the corresponding macro.
Each function key can also record their own macros, such as the graph G2 is set to minimize the window:
Keyboard Layout can scan the game installed on your computer, if it is mutually supportive and G15, it will drop down list box in the configuration appears, select the appropriate configuration, will be a lot for the macro has been configured G key assignment, the official Web site lists the G15 supported games list. In addition to already have some configuration files, you can also create their own configuration files to activate the new configuration file is to specify a program (. exe files), when the program executes, the configuration file is automatically activated.
can record a macro, is the most practical G15 G-keys to the place. On the macro record, there are two methods for a sequence record button, another button can also be an additional record of the time difference between the two. For example, in Automatic release of two different sub-macro magic, you can do something like this configuration (simply stated that the delay between the buttons is not entirely the Ji keys):
MR configured with the keyboard is the same as if , but the drawback is can not select a profile, it can not choose the macro, and can only record the input button. do not say.
2.2 High
function keys and macro keys described above, after, some people feel that functional is not strong enough, to cite an example, such as World of Warcraft, just configure macro Do not worry, G15 also supports the home, left and right buttons, scroll wheel. If the configuration file in World of Warcraft add with the mouse coordinates control script, not allocated to achieve a quick click on any of Warcraft icon on the function keys, or adding the control wheel to match the shortcuts is not difficult to achieve.
more interesting is, G15 of the
the help documentation in the G15, G15 has an article on the unique statement lua api. The following chart is a simple example, when the liquid crystal display to achieve the G6 pressed the button pressed, and open the macro computer such as in the picture above the third line of the script is used to do this.
and I found that pressing the G key and the G key is the trigger twice bounce script, not once. Of course, this can be controlled in the script The.
*. specific information on LUA, you can go to the official website of http://www.lua.org Pok lua learning.
3.1 LCD screen primary
when the original decision to buy G15 , there is a more important reason is G15's LCD screen. Although its resolution is not high, only the 160x43, but displays some text information, graphics, or simply more than enough.
directly support some of the procedures part of the information output to the G15's screen, such as system monitor test software everest and rivatuner, such as the vista of the sideshow, there fraps. We can even customize their own software for these different information is displayed on the same screen,
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through the G15 comes with Logitech GamePanel Manager program, which programs can be configured G15 display, LCD display or the effect is rather like being shown and so on.'s own procedures, including time display, pop e-mail message, cpu memory monitoring, multimedia messaging, stopwatch.
If you check the configuration program in the Next, otherwise it will display a page when the page name of the program.
Ji then talk about how to configure a common procedure, so that they appear in the g15 on the information.
3.1.1 WinVista Sideshow
G15 in the program installed, you can control panel in vista sideshow see the following, tick the box to select the box on display in the G15, but do not forget also the Logitech GamePanel Manager sideshow to select the corresponding procedures.
3.1.2 Everest
everest we are all familiar with the new version, support WinVista sideshow and the G15, the following is said on how to make the G15 display the contents of Everest. First everest main interface opens in the br> Then add the need to show the breakdown of this see their preferences, some of which are commonly used monitoring option, the name of the font can be changed by right of the screen 4 arrow keys, you can set the display on the LCD screen the location of the.
3.1.3 RivaTuner
Rivatuner to set the relative bit more complex, Figure Speak to me.
first point of the figure last icon
the next page select the red setup upper left corner of the screen.
3.1.4 extension papers: game support
in GamePanel Manager's configuration page, there will be some support for G15 of the game comes up, like the previous figure of ;. when running World of Warcraft, when the keyboard characters on the LCD will show some properties; when the time is running some FPS games, LCD will display the current types of firearms, blood article, the number of bullets and so on. by Zhao official the document said, also supports some of the sports games. Online World of Warcraft has a special plug-ins with the G15.
because the family has no broadband, so the details of the future together.
3.2 LCD screen Intermediate
know how to set up after the above procedure, may find so much information at a different screen, even when you want to see change, a lot of trouble. So you want to be able to configure their own information? The answer a can! relatively simple approach is to use some third-party tools to achieve, I use LCDStudio.
3.2.1 LCDStudio
LCDStudio supports most peripherals with LCD, G15 is one of them .
first look at the results I have configured a map:
including the volume (such as this for the use of hivi t200a speaker volume knob on the back of the consumer is very useful, especially to play full-screen when the game), gpu, cpu, chipset and hard drive temperature, date, time, cpu usage, memory usage, the current game or movie fps. is not the most need to show things together more easily it? Ha ha. It even supports output on the screen msn, Miranda IM chat messages.
first make sure the computer is installed microsoft. net framework 2.0, if not the first to install it. and then install LCDStudio, the installation is complete After the first run will be prompted to configure your LCD devices, we chose to G15. and then you can start using the.
Lcdstudio first introduce the two established formats. One is xds, represents a xds file a screen.
a new xds file, you can begin design.
toolbox tab lists a number of graphical tools to design directly onto the right side of the area, which includes a variety of display, such as progress bar, pie, etc..
Data View tab in the second, including a number of data items directly onto the design area right after the corresponding figures can / text displayed on the screen.
third option Card Design Area Properties is the right choice element attributes, such as memory usage of the progress bar's properties, data item is any component on the left side of the property page is displayed in the global settings on this page, including the background and so on. background for his painting with photoshop and other drawing software, 160x43 pixels. bmp bitmap can be.
another LCDStudio xdl file file is created, it is a xds file list, add to the list xds files can be alternately displayed on the LCD screen, select the option to do this xdl boot file, every time Open the computer will automatically load.
LCDstudio usage is very simple, we can see LCDstudio Help menu in the help document, there are very detailed instructions.
also important to note that, Lcdstudio alone can not monitor the data , but by some third-party programs to monitor, in the option can be seen in its support of plug-ins list, sure, if you want to monitor the gpu core frequency, then they would have installed on the computer rivatuner; want to see the fps , it is necessary to install the computer fraps; want to see the frequency of A card, it is necessary to install atitool, and so on.
3.2.2 LCDHype
such procedures there is a LCDHype,
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3.3 LCD screen Advanced
used the LCDStudio, hardware monitoring basically solved the problem, but some programs do not support the G15 how to do it?
then we need to write a program yourself, and in the G15 G15 screen program includes the development of SDK, simply looked at is the C + +, and later in the forum looking for a bit, then find a support java can be automatically converted into g15 compatible java program's lib (J15). are interested can study.
summary
G15 keyboard as one of Logitech's high-end, compared with other high-end keyboard, not only has a very good feeling and practical multimedia keys, but also strong support for macros, LUA language, G keys, can show a lot of information, support and SDK development process and software by many native support for LCD screen. in less than the price of 600 yuan, if let I choose one, I will choose G15.
appendix. Related software downloads
LCDStudio:
http://www.lcdstudio.com/
J15:
http://j15. googlecode.com/files/J15-0.9.zip
LCDHype:
http://lcdhype.de/