Comments on: KeyCastr 0.8.0 Released

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:31:08 +0000

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: matt harrison

matt harrison — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:05:48 +0000

For people looking for a similar linux solution, I wrote a similar program, pykeyview[0].

cheers

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

By: Rudi

Rudi — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:51:02 +0000

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: Gordon Child

Gordon Child — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:46:25 +0000

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: biju

biju — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:40:12 +0000

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: Keith

Keith — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:43:12 +0000

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

Keith — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:21:26 +0000

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: saveyouskin

saveyouskin — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:40:01 +0000

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: Godfrey

Godfrey — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:39:15 +0000

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

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:53:35 +0000

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!