Frequently Asked Questions

Installing KbdEdit

• Starting KbdEdit
• Contacting the author
• Locating the licensing information

KbdEdit editions

• KbdEdit Premium
• KbdEdit Personal
• KbdEdit Lite
• KbdEdit Player

Accessing online help

Introduction

Administration and deployment

• New
• Open
• Save
• Save As
• Delete keyboard layout
• Generate Layout Install Package
• Import KBE file
• Export KBE file
• Import KLC file
• Import Mac .keylayout file
• Export Mac .keylayout file
• Register layout DLL file
• Manage language bar list
• Restoring custom layouts lost during a Windows 10 upgrade

Preview

High-level editor

• Key right-click popup menu
• Editing key mappings using the clipboard
• Editing key mappings using drag-drop
• Key mapping editor popup dialog
• Ligatures and Ligature editor
• Caps Lock-related special settings
• KANALOK check box
• Numeric keypad

Low-level editor

• Editing Virtual Key mappings
• Editing Modifiers
• Special NLS Functions
• Special NLS Functions Editor
• Mouse keys
• List of Virtual Key Codes

Dead char editor

• Dead character list
• Dead character properties
• Import dead char from layout dialog
• Import dead char table from KLD file
• Export dead char table to KLD file
• Chained dead keys

Sticker map editor

Undo-redo

Unicode palette

• Unicode subrange dialog
• Unicode search dialog
• Unicode palette color coding

Character magnifier

Options dialog

Standalone Layout Installer

Examples

• Swapping Caps Lock and Ctrl
• For gamers: disabling the WINDOWS key
• Mapping multimedia/web keys to numeric keypad
• Assigning characters to multimedia/web keys
• Multi-lingual English / French keyboard using togglable KANA
• Multi-alphabet Serbian Cyrillic / Latin keyboard using togglable KANA
• Tri-lingual Serbian Cyrillic / Latin / Greek keyboard
• Replacing AltGR with KANA

• French improved keyboard (contributed by Gilbert Galéron)
• Multi-lingual Russian phonetic / US English keyboard
• Multi-lingual Bulgarian phonetic / US English keyboard
• Colemak keyboard
• Multi-lingual Hindi / US English keyboard (contributed by Barun Kumar)
• Multi-lingual Hebrew / US English keyboard
• French multilingual keyboard (contributed by Gilbert Galéron)
• Emulating Compose key using chained dead keys
• US English keyboard with all Latin accents using chained dead keys
• Mac Boot Camp: fixed positions of Alt, Windows and Ctrl keys

• Using NLS functions to simulate the "Context menu" key
• Using NLS functions to make Caps Lock and Alt Gr share the same key
• Using NLS functions to simulate togglable ROYA/LOYA modifier keys

• Sanskrit keyboard with Vedic extensions (contributed by Dipanshu Aggarwal)