KeyTraino

'Scott' on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 10:20:09 GMT, sez:

You are a nasty nasty man. I was searching for the download button before I finished the article.

'Yaron' on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:47:50 GMT, sez:

Making an interface that would be more useful than annoying is a problem.
But the technical aspect shouldn't be too difficult, at least for a partial implementation.

Even without getting an info file from the developers, a lot could be done for alternate ways to achieve the same effect.
Getting information about all menu items from a window is easy (except for dynamically generated menus) so you can get information of what is found at which menu, and accordingly a lot of the Alt-key shortcuts.
Getting the active accelerator table for a window should also be not too complicated, I think, which should cover almost all other keyboard shortcuts. Since accelerators are usually given IDs identical to those of matching menu items, it should be easy to connect them.
These give a lot of what you want.

Buttons and toolbars are harder. But if you can get developers to play along and prepare a file with all the control IDs that do the same thing, you're good to go.

'lb' on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 21:25:55 GMT, sez:

good stuff Yaron.

Just zing your prototype of it over to me (leon bambrick at gmail dot com, all one word) and we'll polish it up and mop the floor at this years larkware dev comp, atli-style.

cheers
lb

'An idiot' on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:57:03 GMT, sez:

Where's the link, there, jhonny?

'Martin Brice' on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 11:47:55 GMT, sez:

Like Scott, I was googling for KeyTraino before I finished the article. You are one nasty tease! :>

'Jon Galloway' on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:02:26 GMT, sez:

Great! I'd get started on it right now if my wrists weren't hurting so blasted much!

As Yaron's saying, the programs could provide a lot of the information. There could be a supplemental XML file to clean up or replace the info over time - sort of like the IntelliType commands.xml file (http://www.google.com/search?q=intellitype+commands.xml) . The key would be to make it easy for users to improve and upload information, like CDDB does.

'Hazza' on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:20:45 GMT, sez:

Well at least i wasn't the only one whom believes in the idealistic ability of new tools to be spurred into action to find this fantastic peace of work LOL mean mean now I’m depressed. You lead me on and now i wont it give it to me.LOL

'Eric TF Bat' on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:17:15 GMT, sez:

I too am deeply saddened that this software only exists in the alternate universe in which Henry Ford invented the hydrogen-powered car and Elvis Presley is still President. However, Emacs will at least tell me of the existence of keyboard shortcuts any time I use M-x to run a command, so I'm not doing too badly.

'lb' on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 23:31:31 GMT, sez:

cheers Eric... hmmm my "anti-emacs" filter tells me i should delete your comment... but i'm gonna let it stay ;-)

'Esad Hajdarevic' on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 18:26:08 GMT, sez:

I've just stumbled upon something similar for Mac

http://www.macility.com/products/keycue/

'chansen' on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:21:11 GMT, sez:

Where can you download this supernice utility?

'Nandu' on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:29:10 GMT, sez:

Where's the download link?

'Renil' on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 05:49:31 GMT, sez:

Where can I download this really helpful utility?

'POJO' on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:13:57 GMT, sez:

Where can I scratch my ass?

'CUJO' on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:30:27 GMT, sez:

Look above your neck!

'KB Shortcuts' on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:24:22 GMT, sez:

check out KB Shortcuts -- an ajax application that provides a very handy list of shortcuts for all applications.
and if your favourite ones aren't listed -- you can add your own.
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