Feature request: support keyboard to cycle trough page layouts

[davidsanner]

Swiping R/L works great on tablets but having the ability to cycle through page layouts via std keyboard (arrow keys, space bar and/or pressing a corresponding number key) would be a nice feature.

[EdKok]

Came to make this feature request myself.
But would use it myself in a bit more complex way, namely with a IR-remote. My display is in the wheelhouse above the windscreen and out of reach. Hence the need for a remote.
I have the IR-part working in the OS but sadly KIP doesn't support keys (yet :) )

[davidsanner]

Simple keystrokes (even when using std keyboard) would be a nice feature for sure.

I have a "8Bitdo Micro Bluetooth Gamepad" with the ability to map custom keystrokes to any of its 16 buttons. Along with trigger happy demon, xbindkeys, & xdotool... and custom code to process double clicks, I can trigger scripts to move the mouse over the bottom of the screen and cycle through the layouts. This is for linux but would imagine there's something on Windows to map keystrokes to scripts.

My current setup does this all with a single button on the remote. 1st press launches Kip if it's not running, subsequent single clicks positions the mouse for a next screen and sends a click. A double press does the same but positions it over the prev screen and then sends click.

If you're looking for a bluetooth remote it's one of the better ones I've found. Even has an app to map it's 16 keys to any keyboard stroke (eg. Shift-F5 or Control-B). I use to to pan/zoom on OpenCPN as well as control media songs/volume. I have one button setup to toggle the anchor alarm.