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VIA, as you mentioned, is one of the niftiest I've seen. I just wish that VIA was a bit more robust, particularly around macros... I want to do something that

VIA, as you mentioned, is one of the niftiest I've seen. I just wish that VIA was a bit more robust, particularly around macros... I want to do something that does separate key down and key up events with pauses between. Unfortunately, VIA doesn't do that. And worse, my keyboard (Keychron K3 Pro) doesn't yet have a public firmware build for QMK, so I can't do it directly in there either... (I'm trying to write a macro for blanking the screen in macOS. Normally this is ctrl-shift-eject with eject held for a brief moment, but a macro of that rarely works from VIA. It needs a little delay at the end. If I add a no-op key to the end it then works, but also leaves ctrl and shift stuck down until I manually press each of them, which is no good.) </digress>

jaygreco 4y ago
VIA is an awesome resource for the community and really lowers the bar on entry (our users no longer need to or are expected to compile their own firmware just to tweak keys) as well as just being convenient and nice to have. My only gripe is that they moved to web-only from “native” apps instead of offering both, but if that’s what needed to happen to bump up the development velocity, so be it. Re: the delays, I think I recently saw something about delays being possible in macros now, or perhaps soon — it might have been in QMK nightly, I can’t remember.
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- c0nsumer 4y ago
  It's definitely not currently possible in VIA. It seems to be in normal QMK because the advanced documentation mentions it like it's a normal thing. But I otherwise agree, it really does make things easy. I just wish it did a little bit more...