Comment from Sherbople
Time August 21, 2008 at 1:48 am

Looks like a really good idea – simple, nice and small. I’ve only just ordered my tablet, and this software fixes one of the problems that I had anticipated when I was going to use flash/PS/etc. I’ll have to play with the settings and find the best way to use it. Anyways, thanks for making my life easier

Comment from FlameStream
Time August 25, 2008 at 6:30 am

First of all. Very thoughtful of you to think about creating this software. I’m thinking of adopting it but there is one little thing that bothers me when using it. Saves a few bucks to buy one of those nifty keypads to accompany the tablet PC.

However, most of the time, the modifier keys are used with a single key/click and it’s released, never to be chained with another input (with the exception of the spacebar key with huge pictures). For example, when I want to rotate the canvas using alt + space or change my brush size using ctrl + alt, I find myself having to toggle those buttons back to release them. Would it be possible to make the activated modifier keys release after an keyup or mouseup event? That would make the software perfect in my eyes.

Comment from Matias
Time September 3, 2008 at 12:47 pm

I been serching for this solution for years! Thank you!

Comment from pechorin
Time October 16, 2008 at 7:27 am

this is great, the perfect solution, thank you!

do you still support this project? it wold be nice a vertical configuration and the option to increase a little the size.

Comment from Shepy
Time October 16, 2008 at 11:50 am

pechorin,

The two changes you have requested have been added.

~Shepy

Comment from pechorin
Time October 16, 2008 at 6:28 pm

wow, thats amazing!

thank you so much

Comment from Sothis
Time October 20, 2008 at 10:08 pm

Thanks, Shepy, for keeping up the work on this. It’s great. I have noticed a problem with assigning “function” keys to the buttons:
F1 to F6 – the buttons show Usr1 to Usr6, result is always CTRL-H ; F7 to F12 -the buttons show and act like F1 to F6 .

Comment from Shepy
Time October 21, 2008 at 12:37 am

Sothis,

I have now corrected that bug and release version 0.7.2 which should have the F keys working correctly, thanks for letting me know.

Cheers

~Shepy

Comment from Sothis
Time October 21, 2008 at 8:10 am

Thanks, Shepy!

Comment from Alex
Time October 26, 2008 at 12:42 am

Thanks for really useful program.
what about making double click mode (like in Word for some buttons): if click once – button will release after … sec.; dubclick (or right button) – stick mode.

Comment from Shepy
Time October 29, 2008 at 7:02 am

Alex,

The functionality you want was already present in Modlock.

If you click once, and have timers set in the options, then the button will release after that amount of time.

If you right click the button then that button will lock on till you click it again.

Cheers

~Shepy

Comment from Josean
Time November 10, 2008 at 9:37 am

It is a very ussefull utility.
At last, I can use babylon comfortably in my Tablet PC.
But I have a little problem: I have just installed modlock in Windows Vista Home Premium. It works fine. However, when I push the option button, the following error is shown: “Runtime error 339. Component ‘MSCOMCTL.OCX’ or one of its dependencies not correctly registered. A file is missing or invalid. So I cannot configure modlock. The rest of funcionality works ok.
Regards,
Josean

Comment from Shepy
Time November 10, 2008 at 10:44 am

You seem to have a corrupted Visual Basic Runtimes Josen.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=25437d98-51d0-41c1-bb14-64662f5f62fe&displaylang=en

If you re-install that you should be able to use ModLock correctly.

Cheers

~Shepy

Comment from Anestis
Time January 31, 2009 at 4:07 pm

Very useful exactly what I wanted. Is it possible to have an extra check-box, in order the button to be relished after the first click on the screen instead the timer?

Comment from Shepy
Time February 2, 2009 at 2:21 pm

Unfortunately not Anetis, that would require monitoring all system wide mouse events, which could get quite unnecessarily resource intensive.

~Shepy

Comment from pechorin
Time February 3, 2009 at 9:41 am

hi! still using and loving your little program

i comment a pair of things, just in case you are bored

1. when you move the bar, sometimes you cant see it until you release the button. i am not sure when it happens, i think after selecting the bar the second time

2. would it be very difficult to add a snap option to edges and the taskbar?

thank you!!

btw, why \alt, ctrl, shift\ and not \ctrl, alt, shift\?

Comment from CioN
Time February 15, 2009 at 7:50 pm

Great job!!

The customisable buttons are a big help to work.

Only one suggestion, why can’t hide the others buttons, for example shift. This option would make modlock more customisable

Comment from Serge
Time February 17, 2009 at 6:22 pm

Shepy, thanks a lot for the cool app!
Great idea, definitely “must have” for every tablet pc user, this is (almost) exactly what I was looking for since I bought the tablet PC.
Do you still support this project? There is one more wish, if possible:

The same as Josean, I want to use Babylon without a keyboard. Your tool is indispensable for it, but I think it would be super cool if a temporary modifier could be assigned to a double-click of side button of a stylus.
It seems, all pens for today active digitizers have eraser and side button serving as a right mouse button. When I click this button on my stylus, the OS detects it even if I don’t touch the screen (the mouse pointer changes). How do you think, it is possible to assign a modifier to such an action?

Cheers!
Serge.

Comment from Shepy
Time February 18, 2009 at 5:32 am

pechorin:

1) Not quite sure why that is, ill look into it for the next release.
2) Sounds like a good idea, i’ll see what i can do
3) Alphabetical order, why do you pick ctrl/alt/shift?

CioN:

Its main function is the those primary buttons, making these hidable as well would mean a major revamp of the resizing / hiding code, which i just dont have the time to do. It was never really about customisation, it was about providing pen access to a few buttons.

Serge: I’m afraid that it something you would need to check in your pen drivers. I can happily code in an API call or a run option that presses a button if called from the drivers, if your pen drivers allow for execution of arbitrary code etc on press?

~Shepy

Comment from pechorin
Time February 18, 2009 at 3:43 pm

i think it is just the standard way… order in the keyboard or something. nevermind anyway

it is great you are so close to users, we love your applicaion, thank you!

Comment from Thomas Pope
Time February 19, 2009 at 12:31 am

What a wonderful little application!

The only thing I would like to see is the ability to add things like Ctrl-Z to the custom buttons list.

Even so, this is incredibly helpful for Photoshop and Illustrator. Thank you!

Comment from Jon
Time March 1, 2009 at 10:58 pm

Great little tool for tablet users, I’ve been looking for something similar for a while now. So, what’s the chance of allowing each button to trigger two or three keys, as what I really, really want is a button to press Ctl-Z and Ctl-Shift-Z, that is, undo and redo?
How’s about it? That would be the perfect tablet tool!

Comment from Tim
Time April 5, 2009 at 1:24 am

I would also like the ability to bind the additional keys to key combos. Great tool, thanks!

Comment from Andario
Time April 22, 2009 at 2:22 pm

Hi Shepy, thanks a lot for the software.

Unfortunately, I too have the same problem as the guy a few posts above, the auto-release never works for me. It’s weird, because it only let me use 0 or 0.5, and no other number (neither using the arrows or typing in it), and the auto-release never works. A real pain, since I always forget to turn it off each and every time I press a key.

I´m using an original XP Tablet, US version, and no resident antivirus. (If that helps, I noticed that the other guy who had the auto-release problem was in Spain as I am, not sure if it may have something to do with language settings??)

Thanks mate.

Comment from Andario
Time April 22, 2009 at 2:24 pm

Forgot to say that perhaps an older version might work for me, is it possible to get one of those?

Comment from pshop
Time May 5, 2009 at 8:13 am

hello. awesome tool. just one request, is it possible to add brakets to the additional keys?

Comment from pshop
Time May 5, 2009 at 8:19 am

square [] brackets specifically, they are photoshop brush resize shortcut keys.

Comment from Lasphere
Time May 6, 2009 at 5:37 pm

Hey mighy-creator-of-this-pieceofart-software!

I was wondering if I could come with a request for and useful addition to modlock. If would be nice if it was possible to set key like: alt+f4, and alt-t and so on. You know, customizable keys.

i could really use windowsbutton-t.

Comment from Juan carlos
Time May 10, 2009 at 1:16 am

Hi shepy, thank’s for the software, cool work.

Unfortunately I have the same problem that Andario have, I use mor or less the same configuration that him, I am also from Spain.
Well if you know how to fix it, or if you want that I try same thing, please put it in the post.

Anyway, thank’s a lot for the program, I love it.

Comment from Taliesin
Time July 22, 2009 at 9:33 pm

Hi shepy. Another one from Spainh the same problem about autorelease. I have seen this error under Vista and now under W7 RC. Maybe language settings?

Comment from brotivore
Time November 16, 2009 at 12:43 pm

seems the problems above are linked to language config issues involving the decimal separator (dot in Us, coma in EU). fix by changing this specific language setting concerning numbers in windows

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Comment from Mark Oakley
Time December 15, 2009 at 4:25 pm

This is a sweet little tool.

Two things:

1. Using Photoshop; Have tied one of the extra keys to a function key, then programmed a simple “undo” macro (ctrl+alt+z). Works fine, except pressure sensitivity vanishes for the first nib-to-screen touch. It returns again on the next touch. I’m using a system with the Wacom penabled driver.

2. If you add a donations button, I would love to send some money your way to pay for your time in creating such a useful tool. I’m sure many of us would.

Thanks!

Comment from Shepy
Time December 15, 2009 at 5:12 pm

Mark,

The problem you are having is that you are calling the maco, which is not passing focus back to the window. Are you using AutoHotKey or similar for the macro? Whatever macro software you are using, you need it to pass focus back to photoshop after it is finished and that should solve it. I’m a bit short of time at the moment through various projects, but I shall see about the capability of adding in modifier keys / multiple keys on the buttons, so one click can send ctrl + alt + z, etc.

As for the donations button, i have added a wee bit about donations to the freeware section at the top of this page.

Cheers

~Shepy

Comment from Mark Oakley
Time December 23, 2009 at 7:49 pm

Thanks for the reply, Shepy!

I see what you’re saying. The macro I’m using for ctrl+alt+z is set up in Photoshop’s programmable “Actions” system whereby one can program the “F” keys to trigger a series of Photoshop commands. But I see what you’re saying. It’s a bit of a puzzle; pressure sensitivity in Photoshop is enabled by Wacom’s Tablet PC driver, and presumably it doesn’t engage until it registers that focus has been returned to Photoshop. I’ve been trying to think of a way to tack on another task to the series of commands in the macro which will make Wacom say, “Ah! Hello pen tip! Yes, you need pressure sensitivity, don’t you. . ?” but my experiments haven’t been successful. –I tried adding tool changes to the macro stream, switching from brush to selection tools and back again, but it doesn’t make a difference. Unfortunately, the response qualities of the nib which can be adjusted through Photoshop menus cannot be included in automated macros. So I’m coming up empty.

Anyway, thanks for your attention. Happy holidays!

-Mark

Comment from thierry
Time March 8, 2010 at 11:32 am

Thanks, for your useful tool. I am in a French release of Seven. I activated auto release. Now I am no more able to enter options. Where are stored the options, to change them manually or remove the weird configuration file?

Comment from Shepy
Time March 8, 2010 at 11:54 am

Thierry,

The settings are saved in the registry. You should be able to bring up the options by clicking the options button on modlock, or right clicking the tray icon and selecting options.

If you would like to reset all configuration to defaults, you can download this registry file:

http://www.shepy.co.uk/modlock/modlock_reset.reg

And that should restore everything to default.

Cheers

~Shepy

Comment from thierry
Time March 9, 2010 at 8:32 am

Thank you. Solved.

Comment from Jason
Time March 13, 2010 at 3:01 pm

Thanks for this great software, Shepy!

Comment from Greenlaw
Time April 3, 2010 at 8:51 pm

Shepy,

I got my first tablet PC a few months ago with the intention of using it to create storyboards and concept art at work, and modLock has made the tablet PC far more useful and practical for me. Thanks for making this great tool!

Greenlaw
Partner | Little Green Dog | http://www.littlegreendog.com
Senior Digital Artist | Rhythm & Hues Studios | http://www.rhythm.com

Comment from HZ
Time April 6, 2010 at 6:57 pm

YES! This is a software that addresses such a important need of tablet artists, yet it’s totally ignored by the actual manufacturers! It is mind boggling @_@’

So THANK YOU VERY MUCH SHEPY!!

Also, like wat a lot has mentioned above, if you can map multiple keys to one button, this software will be perfect! I am seriously waiting in anticipation for this! Pls let me get rid of my stupid numpad!

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Comment from Shepy
Time June 22, 2010 at 11:17 pm

Modlock now updated to allow Shift / Alt / Ctrl along with the additional customisable keys.

~Shepy

Comment from atw2
Time August 30, 2010 at 9:28 pm

Does it work with Windows Seven 32bits?
Each time I click on OPT I have the error “Runtime error 339. Component ‘MSCOMCTL.OCX’ or one of its dependencies not correctly registered. A file is missing or invalid”. Installing MVB 6.0 or installing MSCOMCTL.OCX alone isn’t helpfull at all with Seven

Comment from atw2
Time August 30, 2010 at 9:39 pm

I find a solution, it’s OK if I run this program in Windows XP compatibility mode