Recording AVE events

Copyright © 2001 Jarno van der Linden.

recave

Records AVE mouse and keyboard events for later playback by playave.

Synopsis

recave <events datafile> [ <time resolution> ]

Description

RecAVE installs itself as a wedge in the AVEwedge system to capture all mouse and keyboard events. These events are written to a file in a simple text format.

The events datafile is the file to write the events to. See the playave help file for a description of the format.

The time resolution is the number of milliseconds between checking the mouse position. Keyboard and mouse button events are recorded immediately, but the mouse position is only probed every once in a while given by the time resolution. The mouse position is only recorded if it has changed. The default time resolution is 20 milliseconds.

When run, recave will wait for a trigger to start recording. The default trigger is the toggling of the capslock key. It will record until the capslock is again toggled, and exit.

Feel free to edit the produced events datafile, for example to remove any unneeded events at the end or start of the file.

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