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KeyCastr 0.8.0 Released

KeyCastr 0.8.0 has been released.  Source is available on GitHub.

13 comments on ‘KeyCastr 0.8.0 Released’

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KeyCastr cannot start in my MacBook Pro. Mac OS Tiger.

The Crash report

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Host Name: qis-computer
Date/Time: 2009-03-30 08:11:12.070 +0800
OS Version: 10.4.11 (Build 8S2167)
Report Version: 4

Command: KeyCastr
Path: /Users/haijiang/Applications/KeyCastr.app/Contents/MacOS/KeyCastr
Parent: WindowServer [65]

Version: ??? (0.8.0)

PID: 965
Thread: Unknown

Link (dyld) error:

Symbol not found: _NSRangeException
Referenced from: /Users/haijiang/Applications/KeyCastr.app/Contents/MacOS/../Frameworks/ShortcutRecorder.framework/Versions/Current/ShortcutRecorder
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation

by Haijiang on Sunday, March 29, 2009
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Yikes, looks like I compiled ShortcutRecorder against the wrong framework. I’ll see if I can get a point release out soon to fix that.

by Stephen on Monday, March 30, 2009
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I quite enjoy KeyCastr.

However, I found that it didn’t display the “words (my typing)” in my Mac even when I’m at the maximum font 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, but displays nothing in the large box when I type.

Could anyone help me? Thank you!

by Godfrey on Wednesday, April 8, 2009
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Hi Godfrey,

Make sure you’ve got ‘Enable Access for Assistive Devices’ checked in the Accessibility control panel. KeyCastr requires that in order to function properly. KeyCastr is supposed to warn you in this case, but there’s a bug in the released version.

Hope this helps!

by Stephen on Wednesday, April 8, 2009
5

You right!!!
i solved it!!!!..
Thank you so much!!!

by Godfrey on Wednesday, April 8, 2009
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I have the same problem in my macbook with OSX 10.5.8, and you were right and that solve it, i also found that will be useful to found some “position presets” in the preferences, since it took me a few minutes to figure out how to move it with the default theme, since i have to type something and grab the stroke display and drag it, also, with be usefull to have an option to make the older strokes down instead of up, since i like to use it on top of the screen.

great utility, i hope you find my comments usefull to yo

thanks

by saveyouskin on Saturday, August 8, 2009
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Having trouble getting Keycastr to launch on two machines, one using 10.4.11 PPC and the other 10.4.11 Intel. I try to open it but nothing happens. I’ve made sure to select ‘Enable Access for Assistive Devices’ but still no dice.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Keith

by Keith on Friday, August 28, 2009
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Having trouble running keycastr on two mac machines – a macpro and a G5, both running Mac OS 10.4.11. I’ve “Enabled access for assistive devices” but it doesn’t seem to help. When I try to open the program nothing happens.
Really like what I’ve seen of the utility, but haven’t been able to get it to work. Any ideas?
Thanks

by Keith on Friday, September 11, 2009
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Hii there!
Is there any version of Keycstr available for windows? It would be great if any one can give me some information about that

Thanks in advance
Biju

by biju on Thursday, November 5, 2009
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For those of you who are having trouble getting this to work properly on MacOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard). You can build this yourself by doing the following:
1. Download Xcode (if you don’t already have it)
2. Download the source code.
3. Open the project file (should be KeyCastr.xcodeproj
4. Change the build active sdk to MacOS 10.6 (upper left drop down of main xcode window)
5. Build and run.

I just might create a dmg and post it so people can download.

by Gordon Child on Friday, November 13, 2009
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I’d need a tool like KeyCastr for a Windows computer. Do you have plans to do that or can you point me to a software doing that?

As for us a computer is not a religion but just a tool we use mainly Windows-based machines.

Thanks!
Rudi

by Rudi on Thursday, November 19, 2009
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For people looking for a similar linux solution, I wrote a similar program, pykeyview[0].

cheers

0 – http://github.com/mattharrison/pykeyview

by matt harrison on Monday, November 23, 2009
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Matt: great work! Figures that Linux would make it easier to do. If you’ve got a screenshot, I’ll mention you in a blog post.

Rudi: I don’t know of any Windows equivalent. I had hoped to restructure KeyCastr to make it cross-platform, but it would take too long; the code is all Cocoa/ObjC based. I think I’ve probably already spent too long on it as it is, anyway — I didn’t expect anyone to actually use it.

Gordon: As soon as I can get my hands on Snow Leopard, I’ll release an update. I’m a little behind the curve these days.

Thanks for the comments, all!

by Stephen on Friday, December 11, 2009

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