Vital standalone not loading keyboard layout

[fleischer.karsten]

I was uncertain whether ths is a Feature Request or a Bug, so it is in both categories now.

Vital standalone not reading keyboard layout

I’m using Vital 1.5.5 on Linux, but this issue applies to all versions and OSs and even the Vitalium fork. I like to use the standalone version to develop patches, because it allows me to quickly check the sound with the computer keyboard. Unfortunately, I’m using a german keyboard where the y and z keys are swapped and US semicolon and single quote keys are umlauts instead. Changing the keyboard layout to US English somehow doesn’t work, even before I launch Vital, but that might be a Juce is…

[fleischer.karsten]

My own bug fix for the open source version:

Vital standalone not reading keyboard layout

FWIW, I have made a source code patch for the open source version which will load computer keyboard mappings from the config file. I had to split up a method in load_save.cpp and do some string conversion because the JSON library does not support wide strings. All that I then had to do was to insert a single line in the SynthEditor class. In the config file I added this for german keyboards: “keyboard_layout”:{“chromatic_layout”:“awsedftgzhujkolpöä+#”,“octave_down”:“y”,“octave_up”:“x”} (T…