How often have you found yourself recording a screencast annoyed by the fact that only the mouse is visible? I haven’t seen any screen recording software that provided an easy way to display shortcuts on screen as you type.<\/p>\n
Most of the fancy UI stuff happens in OS X land (see Mousepos\u00e9<\/a> ) but I needed the functionality under Windows. Microsoft introduced the layered window api in Windows 2000 which makes it possible to create alpha-blended windows with any shape.<\/p>\n So on a chilly afternoon I sat down and wrote a litte utility that implements a global key logger which diplays all shortcuts and keystrokes as you type – on screen and with a semi-transparent overlay. This makes it very easy to show any shortcuts you use if you for example record a software demo.<\/p>\n To get a feeling what it looks like: Screencast<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Tip: when doing the recording with TechSmith’s Camtasia make sure to enable the “record layered windows” checkbox.<\/p>\n The software is provided AS IS free for private and academic use without any warranty or implied applicability – read the included license in the about box. For commercial use, drop me a line.<\/p>\n System Requirements: Windows 2000 (with GDI+) \/ Windows XP \/ Windows Vista How often have you found yourself recording a screencast annoyed by the fact that only the mouse is visible? I haven’t seen any screen recording software that provided an easy way to display shortcuts on screen as you type. Most of the fancy UI stuff happens in OS X land (see Mousepos\u00e9 ) but I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jungsbluth.de\/magnus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jungsbluth.de\/magnus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jungsbluth.de\/magnus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jungsbluth.de\/magnus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jungsbluth.de\/magnus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jungsbluth.de\/magnus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jungsbluth.de\/magnus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jungsbluth.de\/magnus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jungsbluth.de\/magnus\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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