How to Duplicate a Keyboard Project?

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Hello!

My colleague made a complete keyboard package (.ico, .keyman-touch-layout, .kmn, .kps, .kvks, readme.htm and welcome.htm) and sent me the project folder (including source and build subfolders). I wanted to make my own keyboard based off of is, but not modify the one he had made.

Here someone describes a similar situation:

It’s not clear to me how this was implemented.

I tried:

  • File>Save as
  • File>Save a copy as

But that only copied one file- not the whole project folder.

Then I tried making a copy of the project folder, using Notepad++ to change every instance of the old project name to the new one, across all files. Then I used Advanced Renamer to do the same to all the file names. It compiled and apparently installed, but was not visible as a new keyboard.

What is the correct process for this?

For the time being, I made a new blank project and copied and pasted the various pieces into it.

Thanks so much,

Alex

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There’s no really easy way to do this at present. There are files to rename and internal file references to update between .kmn, .kps, .keyman-touch-layout etc. Renaming and manually updating is pretty much the only way to do this at present.

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Ah okay. Thanks so much for the clarification!