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SharpKeys 1.0 - Beta 3/Release Candidate 1

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SharpKeys: Saturday, January 31, 2004 at 09:42 PM by Randy

Two "enhancements" for this release, but nothing too major. Consequently, this is Release Candidate 1.

For those of you that are new to my site and my software projects, I treat my projects like "real" applications. When I get a new set of features that I want to work on, I start coding them. When an application gets to be somewhat stable, I make it available to the public - mostly for feedback and testing - for a couple of quick beta cycles. From there, once the application becomes stable and "feature complete" I kick it out the door as "released" and consider it to be done. Of course, some time after that, the cycle usually begins again with a new set of features.

The point of this little blurb is to declare that SharpKeys is very close to being considered "done" as of this release.

Better Add/Edit dialog - I've switched the one-lined DropDown list box for multi-lined list boxes. While this does make for a larger dialog, I find it to be worthwhile because more items are visible and it should be easier to find the key you're looking for. I was contemplating multi-tab filtering system, but in all honesty, that sucked worse, so this is what I'm going forward with.

Context menu - This is just for the List of mappings: right click on the list and you'll see options for to match the buttons on the dialog. Just a little something to help navigation.

Downloads are now over 2000, in three days!

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Comments: (3)

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Posted on: February 03, 2004 at 03:16 AM by Carl Gustafsson

This is so great!!

I am very frustrated at the way the keys on my new laptop are put in weird places, for example "" is where "Right Alt" should be.

One wish: That the key "Fn" could be mapped to e.g. the Windows key. I seldom use it, and it is in the Windows key place. But I guess the "Fn" is a very special key for laptops and might not be possible to remap.

Or...? :) See it as a new challenge.

Thanks for your great application!

Carl

Posted on: February 03, 2004 at 10:14 AM by Randy

Well the problem with Fn is that it might be different on every machine (not likely, but possible) and when I tried to get the scan code for it via C# it told me "00 00" which is obviously bunk. If I had the scan code, though, I would gladly add it to the list!

Posted on: December 15, 2008 at 12:28 PM by Randy

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