KeyCastOW – keycast on windows
keystroke visualizer for Windows, lets you easily display your keystrokes while recording screencasts.
- small footprint (one 100kb executable file)
- green and portable, only depends on windows system dlls
- prenty of settings for keystroke display
- hotkey to turn on/off
No binary provided now.
Please checkout the code.
History
2017-01-29 2.0.2.5
- Windows Defender identifies keycastow as Win32/Rundas!plock trojan.Rebuild on Windows 10.
2016-08-10 2.0.2.5
- Add deferred label to get rid of mousedown before click
- Keep display on mouse down is holding
- Key combinations overwrite previous display
- Crashes on maximumLines set to 0
- Can’t move display to the bottom of screen because taskbar is placed on top of the desktopscreen
- Draggable label that can be turned on/off in settings
- Alignment as left can not work after restart
2015-06-08 2.0.2.3
2015-05-03 2.0.2.0
- hold down modifier key to keep it on display, rather than repeat it
- alignment setting, right alignment by default, so that the labels on dispaly is moving left when inline
- a visual way to set position where the labels start
- settings saved in ini file instead of registery
2015-04-12 2.0.1.0
- new setting: Keyboard Auto Repeat, turned on by default, for example, if user holds down
a
, serials ofa
is generated. If the setting is unchecked, only onea
is generated, until user releases the key and presses it again. - fixed a bug when label spacing is negative
- new setting: Quick Mouse Button Up/Down as Click, turned off by default, there are a ButtonUp and a ButtonDown for a mouse click in this case. When it’s on, if the ButtonUp is closed enough with ButtonDown, it will be displayed as a Click.
2015-04-04 2.0.0.9
2014-12-19 2.0.0.8
- setting of brackets/hyphen for combination keys,
<->
by default,[+]
to show<Alt - Tab>
like[Alt + Tab]
- fix bug of linger time
- setting of maximum lines on display, 10 by default.
2014-12-04 2.0.0.7
- support mouse actions capturing, turned on by default, can be turned off from settings.
2014-10-24 2.0.0.6
- Support multiple monitors
- Drag settings dialog to set position for keystroke display
2014-09-23 2.0.0.3
- fixed bug Y(offset to left bottom corner) not working in settings
- new feature Display only command keys
2014-08-27 2.0.0.2
- fixed issue Doesn’t display Shift key
2014-05-26 2.0.0.1
- flicker free
- anti-aliasing rounded corner
- opacity settings for text/background/border
- settings preview in dialog
- branding string on screen
- fixed some bugs
2014-04-28 1.0.0.1
As MAC user, I use keycastr, an open-source keystroke visualizer to create tech demo animation.
I’m also a Windows user, I googled alternatives of keycastr for windows several times. There are some, but none makes me happy like keycastr from MAC.
Thus one day in March of this year(2014), I finally started my own one – KeyCastOW, the OW
after keycast means On Windows.
For some reasons, this is not open-sourced, but it’s free.
For demo, here I’m using gVim under Windows with my vim configuration.
My <leader>
key in VIM is s
, so don’t be surprised when you’re seeing my
actions started with s
in normal mode.
And I do have some window operations started with <Space>
.
Here we go.