Question about tutor and custom .cfg

Bytemare 2021-01-24 00:03:00 UTC #1

I can't seem to find where to set a custom configuration for the typing tutor. I've searched the forum and only found other people asking for the feature, and mentions in requests for v2 from five years ago.
Is it possible to use a custom config file with the typing tutor?

tony 2021-01-24 00:10:20 UTC #2

@Bytemare Check out https://twiddler.tekgear.com/tutor2/ it is still very much a work in progress but it will allow you to upload your custom config in the setting section. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Bytemare 2021-01-25 03:16:12 UTC #3

Thanks.

When I try to upload the .cfg file it says, "File JSON structure is invalid. Please see schema below."

I'm just trying to use the Geekhand .cfg I downloaded from github.

When I tried to open the .cfg file to look for the error I am told, "The Document was not UTF-8 valid"

tony 2021-01-28 18:43:22 UTC #4

@Bytemare Load it into Tuner and download it to your pc. Tuner should straighten out any config issues.

Bytemare 2021-02-02 19:24:43 UTC #5

I'm sorry I didn't notice your response. I tried that. I even tried a different .cfg file downloaded from the tuner, with identical results.

tony 2021-02-05 18:41:47 UTC #6

@Bytemare Please send the config file to support@tekgear.com. We'll take a look at it.

brandonwillard 2022-08-31 16:21:52 UTC #7

I'm also unable to get a JSON version of my .cfg from the Tuner.

SanjeevKumarSharma 2022-10-02 16:08:51 UTC #8

on the tuner page do you see a export as PDF or CSV?

get that(download the CSV), then look up an online csv to json converter

that may be easier than what I did, manually adding the chord and key tags - I had to do trial and error with the special characters. I just did an editor macro to add the chord & key labels & thought I was done, then it took me another half hour to realize there were improperly escaped characters - backspace and quote - "\" and """.

(I hope I haven't misunderstood what's going on here & am offering non sequitur advice)

brandonwillard 2022-10-04 21:59:02 UTC #9

I eventually downloaded it as a CSV and used the following to convert it to a workable JSON format:

import json
import pandas as pd


cfg_csv = pd.read_csv("twiddler_cfg.csv")
cfg_csv.columns = ["chord", "key"]
cfg_csv.chord = cfg_csv.chord.str.strip()
cfg_csv[["m", "chord"]] = cfg_csv.chord.str.split(" ", expand=True)

cfg_dict = cfg_csv.to_dict(orient="records")
cfg_dict = {"chords": cfg_dict}

with open("twiddler_cfg.json", "w") as f:
    json.dump(cfg_dict, f)

The extra m field might not do anything, though. I only added it to match the default mappings data structure in Twiddler.ChordFactory.

rweberc 2023-09-05 15:56:51 UTC #10

Hi, Thanks @brandonwillard for that code snippet. @Bytemare, I was able to upload that on the tutor2 site. The keys inputs are recognized as the new configuration, but the key presses I see on the twiddler image in the tutor2 are still the original configuration. Is this your experience, too, or is it possible to get the reference image to match the custom configuration?