KeySim 1.0

Keyboard Simulator by Carsten Orthbandt.  06.07.1994

PREFACEPREFACE

 The program KeySim and this documentation may be freely
 distributed as long as no more than a nominal fee is charged.
 No commercial usage is permitted without written permission from
 the autor (address given below).

 THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS. THE AUTHOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR
 ANY DAMAGES CAUSED BY THIS PROGRAM.

INTRODUCTION

 I have a nice trackball with five meters of cable. So I´m able to control
 little games from by bed. But there´s one problem. Everytime I reach a
 highscore or anything else requiring text input, I have to get up and use
 the keyboard.
 To avoid this I wrote this little program. It simulates input from keyboard
 by gadgets.

REQUIREMENTS

 KeySim requires Workbench 2.0 (or higher) and
 reqtools.library © by Nico François.

USAGE

 When startet, KeySim shows you a virtual Amiga keyboard. You press keys by
 clicking the gadgets. All keystrokes are recorded. The qualifiers
 SHIFT, ALT, AMIGA, CTRL and CAPSLOCK are switchable. The text is shown in
 a line below the keyboard display.
 When done with entering text, set the Delay and click GO!.
 After the time specified with the Delay slider KeySim starts simulating the
 selected keystrokes. While KeySim is waiting, select the screen, window or
 gadget the input is for.
 The History button has no function yet. If at least 10 people request me to
 add this history feature, I´ll add this code.

BUGS & FUTURE PLANS

 - KeySim doesn´t handle deadend keys as ´ `.
    This will be fixed very soon.
 - GUI is not font sensitive.
    I tried it, but it was impossible to create a good GUI fitting all fonts.
    Because the window is already quite big, I use topaz 8.
 - History doesn´t work.
    Next release.
 - Clipboard support.
    I will add loading/saving from/to Clipboard. This implies ANSI<->RawKey mapping.
    So not all functions will work right.
 - PubScreen support.
    Might be useful for usage in text editors or tetris games :)

AUTHOR

 Carsten Orthbandt
 Hagedornstraße 71
 12487 Berlin-Johannisthal
 GERMANY

 email to:
 s6357@fb1.fhtw-berlin.de