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Jon · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 373

This script creates a small keyboard at the bottom of your screen which shows you which keys you have pressed. I made it to help me to learn to touch-type so I get used to not looking at the keyboard. I looked for a program that would do this but couldn't find one so I decided to make one. I haven't added all the buttons but I will add more later. I've added the main ones though. It may look a bit large on a lower resolution setting ,. I have got quite a high one.

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Requires Autohotkey 1.0.23+

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10474

Wow, that's pretty amazing. I can see why the instant feedback is a great help while typing because you can keep your eyes on the screen. And your use of a transparent background is a great bonus.

Thanks for sharing it.

Titan · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5376 Location: /b/

Really cool, its fantastic. Lol I wish I had something like this when I was learning touchtyping Razz

It would be cool to have a line of text showing the most recent keys pressed, a small suggestion.

Once again tyvm for sharing it Very Happy

jonny · Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 3004 Location: Minnesota

How would I make this work with the Send command of another script? Currently, it doesn't work with my half-keyboard script, or any other send command for that matter. Would it help to disable the hook on the half-keyboard?

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10474

The reason it doesn't work is that the above script uses pass-through hotkeys, which are a feature of the keyboard hook. As a side-effect, the keyboard hook is designed to ignore hotkey activations triggered by any script's use of the Send command.

You would probably have to modify the script above to use the Input command rather than a series of single-character hotkeys.

exhueydriver · Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Posts: 51 Location: Fife,Wa

This program, and the people on this forum never cease to amaze me!
Since I haven't had the time to study up on the gui stuff, can you tell me
how to make the "Home" keys(F & J) a different color, or underline them?
When it comes to touch typing, I REALLY need help.
Thanks
Don

Rajat · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Posts: 1718

its so cool to look at!
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BoBo · Guest

Stumbled over an AHK version conflict. Would have been smart to provide a note that this script works with >= 1.0.23+ Wink

Jon · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 373

Thanks for your comments Smile

Wingfat · Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 8:00 pm Post subject:

very functional! i know of a few people that are going to love this. A freind of mine was just asking if the Onscreen Keyboard in WinXP could do the same thing.
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Could be me but the shift only shows a down status when combined with another key. Should it not show that it is being pressed with out having to press another key. not a big deal though.
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jonny · Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 3004 Location: Minnesota

The screen was indeed too big for mine, and I am already an excellent typist anyway. But I thought I'd like it better if it displayed one key at a time, rather than the enitre keyboard at once. Here I've modified the code to show the key in the top left of the screen. It is very rudimentary and has an untold number of bugs, but it will work if you press one key at a time slowly. I wouldn't use this, but I'm just throwing this in if someone else wants to run with it.

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10474

Besides the coolness factor, do you all think this script would interest 10% or more of site visitors, and thus should be posted in the script showcase? This is assuming Jon would want it posted there.

jonny · Joined: 13 Nov 2004 Posts: 3004 Location: Minnesota

Well, like I said, I don't use it, but others may find it to be quite useful. Like I said, for lower resolutions it is a bit intrusive. However, I find the ASCII hotkey code to be very interesting. I'm trying to think of more applications for using ASCII to code hotkeys, especially because it would make scripts such as this, including my half-keyboard script, more efficient and less tedious to write. You could post it just for that, to show that new, creative ways to make hotkeys other than "^X::" are possible. Also, there's the coolness factor.

Gre · Joined: 12 Oct 2004 Posts: 77 Location: São Paulo ,Brazil

Tryed this script now,it is really nice.I think it is a good one to be posted in the showcase

BoBo · Guest

Yep, showcase.

As an innovative tool/script shows AHK's power. Thought about if it would make sense to classify script samples with keywords and/or a download rating ? This way the popularity of a script could be identified easily.

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