PxKeystrokesForScreencasts

Displays Keystrokes in an overlay window. (Windows 8)

Press Ctrl + Shift + Alt to reveal configuration options, resize, move or close the window.

Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud3tqB8TMVc

Screenshots below.

This is Open Source. If you miss a feature, go for it and send a Pull-Request afterwards!

Features

• Displays special keys (volume up: 🔊⏫) and shortcuts
• Click Through
• Opacity
• Customizable: Colors, Font, Size and Position, Text Position and Orientation
• Displays history of pressed keys
• Icon in notification area
• One small file, no installation required
• Visually indicate mouse cursor position
• Visually indicate pressed buttons

Download

Download PxKeystrokesUi.exe 0.3.1 (most recent, 2016-01-31, Win10 tested)

This security alert will appear. Click the More Info link, and then Execute anyway.

This dialog is ugly. To fix this, i need a validated security certificate. Certum offers a low priced 1 year certificate for open source projects for € 25.00 per annum. If someone funds at least three years of certification (€ 75.00), i will use that money to buy a new certificate each year. Then I will also implement a secure autoupdater. Get in contact with me. For transparency: Currently total raised money: € 0 (May 2020). You can support via Patreon, paypal.me/phaiax, send Bitcoins (

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Releases

You can find the exe in the Releases folder

May 2020: There is new version in the works with support for multi monitor / multi dpi setups. It will takes a while since I need to port the app from WindowsForms to WPF and I do this in my spare time.

• v0.0.1 (Text positioning not implemented yet)
• v0.1.1 (Looks fine)
• v0.1.2 (More Whitespace between special chars)
• v0.1.3 (fix bug with Win+? shortcuts)
• v0.2.0 (indicator for cursor position, history timeout, bugfixes, documentation)
• v0.3.0 (indicator for pressed buttons, deadkey fixes, backspace functionality)
• v0.3.1 (new icons, little fixes and internal improvements)

Requirements

Windows 8 or 10

Windows 7 requires you to change the default font, otherwise you will see little squares instead of symbols.

Screenshots

TODO

• Make some things a little bit more beautiful
• Documentation, Refactoring, Testing

Known Issues

• Centering of Text if many arrow keys (or other special keys) have been pressed
• Will not work in Front of Win 8 Apps

License

Apache Version 2, refer to the file LICENSE for details