Code52 / carnac

A utility to give some insight into how you use your keyboard
http://carnackeys.com/
Microsoft Public License
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Shift and Spacebar #108

Open andremeireles opened 8 years ago

andremeireles commented 8 years ago

Hello!

Shift + ctrl + key and Shift + Alt + key are exhibited but Shift + key is not exhibited. Spacebar is showing up nothing. Just one empty position on screen. Shift + Space doesn't works like the Ctrl + Space.

Windows 7 x64.

tonidy commented 8 years ago

hi @shiftkey ,

Same issue with @andremeireles , Shift + key could not showed up and also single Spacebar.

App is downloaded from http://ginnivan.blob.core.windows.net/carnac/Carnac.application Windows 10 x64

shiftkey commented 7 years ago

@tonidy @andremeireles apologies for the delay on replying.

Shift + key could not showed up and also single Spacebar.

Let's break these up into two different cases:

I'd love to understand what the inputs and outputs you're seeing here so that I can reproduce them accurately on my side.

Kazioo commented 7 years ago

When you want to make a video tutorial (eg. for a content creation application, like Blender) displaying "A" instead of "Shift + A" is not helping. Same for empty " " instead of the key's actual name: "SPACE".

I made a keymap file as a quick workaround. my_fix.zip It's not perfect (it displays in both ways at the same time), but it's better than nothing.

equiman commented 7 years ago

Shorcuts only in Appearance tab, will be only show show ctrl/shift/alt/win combination and disable all the other keyboard listening.

Then you cans show correctly shift and letter combinations, or shift and space.

As other says, it's very usefull to make video tutorials.

chrisrollins65 commented 6 years ago

The "shortcuts only" option only appears to show shift combinations when used with another shortcut key like ctrl or alt... Some shortcuts, like using Shift+Ins to paste in a linux virtual machine for example, would be nice.

@Kazioo - how would one implement your keymap file?

summer600 commented 6 years ago

@shiftkey What @Kazioo is refering to is probably a choice. Shift+ currently displays the letter as it would ie. either a lowercase or uppercase letter depending on CAPSLOCK. Whereas Shift + display just the Shift + TAB. In normal user input scenario's its probably correct to display the UPPER/lowercase letter when typing with Shift pressed but when used in applications that have shortcuts attached to these Shift + combinations (ie. you are not typing text) it would be preferable to also display those as the Shift + instead of simply displaying the UPPER/lowercase letter. Perhaps this can be a setting preference... And related to that the way a Space is displayed might also depend on the use-case. In normal typing I would expect a blanc space to be displayed, but in some circumstances a SPACE text might be appropriate. I think distinguishing between those use-cases might be difficult and a user-preference might not suffice here.

dimitarsp commented 6 years ago

I would also like to see shift and space displayed as modifier keys to show for program tutorials