Original review published on Steve Litchfield's 3-Lib.

The Series 5 world is awash with utilities to do macros, key interception and general customisation of the entire '5' experience. I'm gradually checking them out (see Backlite Plus and SwitchTask so far), but have to admit that I'm a bit of a Luddite when it comes to this sort of thing. Rather than rely on preset keystrokes to perform various wizardry, I'd rather do things the 'long' way, simply so that when placed in front of somebody else's machine I'm reasonably capable and am not dependent on the 'wizard' to help me out.

That not withstanding, I can at least appreciate the power of these programs and acknowledge that for some people they may become an essential part of day-to-day work. The freeware Remapper is a good example of thr breed, I've been looking at v1.0, downloaded from Richard Reeve's web site.

Remapper launches in the standard Series 5 fashion from the Extras bar, but thereafter takes up just a small window on the bottom of the screen. It's primary function is to intercept just about every keypress and touch-screen event and allow you to reassign it to some action or other. These actions can be very complex if need be, enough to get me a bit confused just browsing around the otherwise excellent demonstration file of remapping definitions.

At its simplest, Remapper allows keys to behave as other keys (or key combinations), so for example you could set Fn-E to produce the é character. Those wishing to write in foreign languages on UK or US Series 5s will love this function. At its most complex, Remapper allows full macros to be set up, each containing sequences of keypresses or pen taps, even to the extent of detecting whether you tapped on an icon or 'tapped-and-held'. (Aaarrghhh! It's too much for me, I canna take it Cap'n ....)

Although a potentially hard application to get to grips with, Richard's inclusion of the demonstration file does at least mean that you can learn by example from the supplied definitions. The only other snag is that it took a slightly annoying 10 seconds to start up on my Series 5, while scanning the installed applications.

Remapper is another fine addition to the ranks of EPOC/32 freeware and its uses are limited only by your imagination.

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