Feature request: Interception as a seperated OS about kanata HOT 7 OPEN

I'm wondering why no one have make one, since the Interception is buggy, and is banned in some online game. Is it for the driver signature?

I would guess that's part of it; another one might be that it exists already and is "good enough" for most use cases. An alternative would be welcome; today I mostly use non-Interception on Windows so I haven't had the motivation.

Currently it is also done in kanata internaly, so that keycodes on Windows can be unified as OsCode. However, this model also killed some interesting applications (e.g. using JIS-only keys to switch layers)

I haven't played around with JIS-only keys at all; does the Interception driver handle them correctly in the first place? I know it's missing proper handling of some keys. If it does, it should be feasible to add code that handles the JIS keys and differentiate it to a unique OsCode, which seems to me would still enable the use case.

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Does the Interception driver handle them correctly in the first place?

I've succeeded in mapping CONVERT and NOCONVERT (two keys around space key in JIS) to LEFT and RIGHT with capsicain. It also proved my thought that ScanCode is more like a raw keyboard input.

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BTW, capsicain impl an exit key chord (esc+x), but kanata_wintercept do not (at least this is what I tested out, maybe I did something wrong). Would separating logics would give a chance to it?

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The exit chord is documented here:
https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/blob/main/docs/config.adoc#forcefully-exit-kanata

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Also, if you can find which scancode matches convert/noconvert, you should be able to map it here in some way
https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/blob/main/src/oskbd/windows/scancode_to_usvk.rs

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Also, if you can find which scancode matches convert/noconvert, you should be able to map it here in some way https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/blob/main/src/oskbd/windows/scancode_to_usvk.rs

Unfortunatelly CONVERT and NOCONVERT are opted out, see

2024-07-27T17:00:59.110969+08:00 [DEBUG] (1) kanata_state_machine::kanata::windows::interception: got stroke Keyboard { code: Convert, state: DOWN, information: 0 }
2024-07-27T17:00:59.1115652+08:00 [DEBUG] (1) kanata_state_machine::kanata::windows::interception: could not map code to oscode
2024-07-27T17:00:59.1812403+08:00 [DEBUG] (1) kanata_state_machine::kanata::windows::interception: got stroke Keyboard { code: Convert, state: UP, information: 0 }
2024-07-27T17:00:59.1818902+08:00 [DEBUG] (1) kanata_state_machine::kanata::windows::interception: could not map code to oscode

The exit chord is documented here: https://github.com/jtroo/kanata/blob/main/docs/config.adoc#forcefully-exit-kanata

The chord works in hook versions but not Interception version.

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Would you be able to test if #1166 works?

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