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KeyCastr lets you easily display your keystrokes while recording screencasts. Very useful when demonstrating complicated keyboard shortcuts.
What's New
Version 0.8.0
A complete rewrite for stability and ease of use. Open sourced under the BSD license. Better icon.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| Downloads:6,093 |
| Version Downloads:3,060 |
| Type:Business : Presentation Tools |
| License:Free |
| Date:26 Feb 2009 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price:Free |
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KeyCastr lets you easily display your keystrokes while recording screencasts. Very useful when demonstrating complicated keyboard shortcuts.
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gcoghill reviewed on 27 Feb 2009
- Ability to display command keys only - many times in graphics software one holds down command keys to temporarily swap tools. Would be nice to be able to display these.
- The bezel doesn't grow proportionally to the font size at the larger font sizes (displayed text ends up on two lines)
- Option for text abbreviations instead of Command Key symbols (i.e. Cmd, Ctrl, Opt, Esc, Tab, Ret, etc.). Some people have no idea what those symbols mean :)
Regardless, cool little app!
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* Ability to display command keys only
I assume you mean "display just the meta key when it's being held down". KeyCastr has this ability, but the default visualizer doesn't make use of it. If you switch the visualizer (use the Display panel in the preferences) to the Svelte visualizer, you'll note that the meta keys light up when they're selected.
* The bezel doesn't grow proportionally
Yeah, that's ugly. I'm planning to fix that.
* Option for text abbreviations instead of symbols
Great idea, thanks!
* Dock menu items for start/stop visualizing
D'oh! I'd meant to add that already. Good catch!
Thanks for your feedback!
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Sounds great on the rest, thanks!
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Would be nice to have more control over the appearance of the default style, such as keeping it on screen while setting prefs, and being able to set the max size it grows to by dragging.
Svelte is nice, but very limited in comparison to the Standard display.
* Allow Svelte to resize
Seems reasonable to me, I can do that.
* Svelte doesn't float above all other windows
That's a bug, I'll fix it up.
* Svelte font is too light (use bold)
Also reasonable. Ideally I'd like to lighten the background when the meta keys aren't being held down, but didn't get there.
* Display location is lost when switching between visualizers
That's a bug. Thanks!
* Some easier way to keep the default visualizer on screen while setting prefs
0.7.x forced KeyCastr to have at least one bezel on the screen while the preferences window was open, but it was really buggy. I might be able to do it more cleanly with the new codebase, though. When you drag the bezel around, it won't fade away, but that's not helpful for when you want to see how the font size and so forth looks. Good suggestion.
* Max size of default visualizer
Also good. I'll think about how I could do that.
* Svelte is limited compared to the standard display
Svelte is really a rush job; it's only true purpose is to let you know that KeyCastr can support more than one style of display and can be extended with plugins. That's one of the reasons it has no preferences :)
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mk-ultra reviewed on 14 Sep 2007
This app is great! It does exactly What I wanted.
In combination with iShowU or Snapz Pro, you can make great video tutorials.
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and 10.4.10 PPC
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so it doesn't work under 10.4.10 PPC
and it doesn't work under 10.4.9 Intel
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koodough reviewed on 22 Feb 2007
First - Much bigger fonts. Compressing my tutorials is hard when the keystrokes are not recognizable in the video.
Second - An option to record the command space with a Icon instead of a little squarish u
Contact me if u have any questions
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thanks!
However, i found that it didn't display the "words(my typing)" in my Mac and even i'm maximum the front size.
Then, i changed "Selected visualizer" into ""Svelte". i found that it only can detect the "Command", "alt", "shift" and "control" buttons in the bottom of "box" which display nothing at "large area" in box whatever i type.
Could any one help me?Thank you!!!
How did I do it?
Simple:
Go to you System Preferences, and then click on that "human in the blue circle" 4 row 1 Object. (Sorry I don´t know the name of it english. Anyway it deals with disabled People)
And now enable the second checkbox from the bottom!
It is called: "Enable access for assistive devices option."
That´s it!
Hope that helps, and leave a comment!
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This isn't some 10.5.2-related problem, maybe?
Hopefully once I've got to an icon, I'll be able to set a preference to only show keystrokes with a modifier key pressed.
It also seemed to be very difficult to move the window - it kept trying to jump back. The secret seems to be to keep pressing keys so the window doesn't try to close mid-drag...
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Yes, it will show individual letters as you type them. Please see the screencast on the KeyCastr homepage:
http://stephendeken.net/software/keycastr/
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Ptujec rated on 11 Jun 2011
Sairam rated on 13 Dec 2010