E2B v1.B1b Beta available

This new Beta version v1.B1b Beta includes the latest version of grub4dos which has enhanced keyboard support for non-QWERTY keyboards.

Changes in v1.B1b are:

• Add menu text "(x present)" for number of XP ISOs present in Windows Install menu.
• New grub4dos setkey command now supports oem102 and Alt+ key chord scancodes.
• Small changes to Hungarian language files.

v1.B1a had these changes:

• Add Hungarian language and keyboard support (thanks to Knyght).
• If the Windows Install ISO filename contains the string 'WimBoot' (not case sensitive) then E2B will not use WIMBOOT to boot the ISO (you must use a Removable USB drive or use a WinHelper Flash drive) - e.g. Win10 Home and Pro x64 1809 Oct English International (NoWimboot).iso

Hungarian keyboard AltGr codes

On the Hungarian keyboard, some of the standard English ASCII characters are produced by using the AltGr key plus a letter or number key (the AltGr key generates a Alt+Ctrl key code).

For instance, the Hungarian keyboard is engraved so that the user expects AltGr+v to generate the @ symbol.

Previous versions of grub4dos did not recognise the AltGr when using the setkey command to change the keyboard mapping, however the latest version of grub4dos now recognises  A0-A9, Aa-Az, oem102 and shiftoem102 as valid key names. Alt+oem102 is not supported.

Note that grub4dos produces the same key code for Alt+v and AltGr+v and Alt+Ctrl+v, so these three key chords will all produce the same character.

The Hungarian keyboard scan code batch file \_ISO\e2b\grub\KBD_QWERTZ_HUN.g4b is used to convert the Hungarian keyboard codes to produce the standard USA characters:

!BAT

#turn off errorcheck in case using old grub4dos with no Alt key support

errorcheck off

#clear all settings

setkey

#setkey [new character] [QWERTY-USA character]

setkey y z 

setkey z y 

setkey Y Z 

setkey Z Y 

setkey 0 backquote

setkey quote exclam

setkey doublequote at

setkey plus numbersign

setkey exclam dollar

setkey slash caret

setkey equal ampersand

setkey parenleft asterisk 

setkey parenright parenleft

setkey backslash Aq

setkey bar Aw

setkey bracketleft Af 

setkey bracketright Ag

#setkey greater Aoem102 - Aoem102 not supported

setkey less Az

setkey numbersign Ax

setkey ampersand Ac

setkey at Av

setkey braceleft Ab 

setkey braceright An

setkey less Am
#use É (USA=:) for $

setkey dollar colon

setkey question less

setkey colon greater

setkey minus slash

setkey underscore question

setkey at doublequote

setkey tilde A1

setkey caret A3

setkey backquote A7
#use oem102 and shiftoem102 (Í and í) for greater and less

setkey greater oem102

setkey less shiftoem102

#use  Ö for asterisk

setkey asterisk 0

#Hun AltGR chars: less greater numbersign ampersand at braceleft braceright semicolon asterisk backslash bar tilde caret quote doublequote bracketleft bracketright

echo QWERTZ_HUN KBD MAP %redir%

#key names

#escape, exclam (!), at (@), numbersign (#), dollar ($), parenright ()), caret (^), ampersand (&), asterisk (*), plus (+), percent (%)

#minus (-), underscore (_), equal (=), parenleft [(], backspace (backspace), tab (Tab), bracketleft ([), braceleft ({), bracketright (])

#braceright (}), enter (carriage return), semicolon (;), colon (:), quote (') , doublequote ("), slash (/), backquote (`), tilde (~)

#backslash (\), bar (|), comma (,), less (<) period (.) , greater (>), question (?)

#space, home, uparrow, pageup, leftarrow, center, rightarrow, end, downarrow, pagedown, insert, delete, F1-F10, shiftF1-shiftF10, ctrlF1-ctrlF10