Overlay of commands / shortcuts / keys pressed - Screencast Mode

[thomthom]

Summary of the new feature/enhancement

It would be great to have a Screencast mode similar to what VSCode features: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_31#_screencast-mode

Very useful for making demos and tutorials.

Proposed technical implementation details

I can see the need for some basic control over size and position. Probably font, size, color and position should be flexible enough.

Another consideration I'm not sure how to best address is multiple monitors. Should the key stroke message be displayed on all monitors? Or just the active one? Or a fixed one?

[crutkas]

For reference, from the VS Code site

[farhan2077]

Any progress on this?

[byamagata]

Would love to be able to implment this. I just havent done any contributions to this project yet and dont want to screw anything up 😂.

+1 For this though! Definitely would love this for presenting over video calls

[rollingmoai]

Here is a list of FOSS apps that currently do this (sorted by stars):

• https://github.com/Code52/carnac - Unmaintained, does not work on most applications
• https://github.com/Phaiax/Key-n-Stroke
• https://github.com/marius-sucan/KeyPress-OSD - Commercial version available
• https://github.com/Jagailo/YetAnotherKeyDisplayer
• mulaRahul/keyviz - Quite new and looks good

[sepsol]

Just found this gem as well:

• https://github.com/mulaRahul/keyviz

[rollingmoai]

• mulaRahul/keyviz

Holy crap, I still remember when this was just two days old and had 1 star. No recent activity in the past few months, though 🤔

Ping @mulaRahul

[mulaRahul]

Yea @rollingmoai, I've not touched the project for the past few months 😅. I'm working on a series of projects, and keyviz was the first on the list. Now working on another one. But I sure got ✨ plans for the future as well.

[byamagata]

Are there any plans for this? This is a really huge thing that I have been waiting for and I am excited to see progress on it! Just wish I knew how to do frontend stuff or else I would jump in myself (I really just need to learn).

[bearoxo]

Hoping for this feature as well.

[waldeir]

+1

[Snailedlt]

Here is a list of FOSS apps that currently do this (sorted by stars):

• https://github.com/Code52/carnac - Unmaintained, does not work on most applications
• https://github.com/Phaiax/Key-n-Stroke
• https://github.com/marius-sucan/KeyPress-OSD - Commercial version available
• https://github.com/Jagailo/YetAnotherKeyDisplayer
• mulaRahul/keyviz - Quite new and looks good

To add to this list (unsorted):

• https://github.com/nutti/Screencast-Keys - Blender addon
• https://github.com/AxDSan/KeyPose - free alternative to MousePosé for Windows
• https://github.com/keycastr/keycastr - macOS only

[mrazzari]

A major gotcha with all the apps listed above: they don't work if apps intercept keyboard events. Specifically I'm testing NVDA. I assume this could be an issue with some games as well (haven't tested).

[pczaja]

+1

[jlimadev]

+1

Today I'm using Keyviz (it works pretty well)

I'd love to see this feature in PowerToys

In addition, it would be helpful to have the option of highlighting specific commands, just like how this VSCode Extension does with CTRL + C.

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[BananenRitter]

Not to sound cocky but this was created in 2019 why wasnt this implemented already? Is somebody working on this currently?