I'm excited now, which is not a good sign. Don't expect anything *good* from this, just a mere test of something fun that may or may not work.
Introdicing KeyCommander!
About four hours in Visual Basic, and I've come up with a little handy-dandy program that monitors your keystrokes for a special 'passowrd'. Then, once that password is recognized, a menu comes up, kinda like the DOS prompt. Here's how it works.
Step 1: Download and unzip Key Commander BETA 1. http://www.sepwich.com/lotr-srb2/other/KeyCommander.zip
Step 2: Double click. You should see the splash screen for a sec.
Step 3: After the splash screen goes away, open Notepad or Your Favorite Text Editor. Not gauranteed to work in a DOS text editor, such as VIM, so use 'Pad or Word or something. Make sure you have a blank document, or KeyCommander will eat up what you've allready typed.
Step 4: slowly type in /command
This may or may not work right from this point. I've tested it on WIn98 and Win2k. It did work on 2k, but it didn't in 98.
If it worked, you should see something like this in your text editor screen:
If you didn't see it, try again , but slower this time. If you *still* didn't see it, then it won't work, I'm afraid. The only way to purge it is to Ctrl+Alt+Del out of it. It's named 'Project1' on the tasklist.
Try typing in 'List'. Go ahead, just right in your little text editor.
Cool, eh?
Type in 'View http://google.com [enter]'
Nifty, eh?
Type in 'exit' to get out of it, or hit F12 to purge your /command session.
To exit KeyCommander, press Alt+F12.
It's designed to go anywhere you are. In fact, you can use it in any multiline textbox, or even (risky), your favorite game! Best part is, you don't even need a textbox. You can just /command at your desktop to get in.
I'm planning to add a spellcheck function to spell those nasty words that noone can remember. Also, I'm gonna add a 'Kill' function to stop programs that don't respond. Did you see that SRB2.CHECKGAMES function in the LIST? Yup, it's gonna check for any games on the SRB2 masterserver!
Far from bugless, and in spite of that Windows 98 bug, please tell me what you think!
Introdicing KeyCommander!
About four hours in Visual Basic, and I've come up with a little handy-dandy program that monitors your keystrokes for a special 'passowrd'. Then, once that password is recognized, a menu comes up, kinda like the DOS prompt. Here's how it works.
Step 1: Download and unzip Key Commander BETA 1. http://www.sepwich.com/lotr-srb2/other/KeyCommander.zip
Step 2: Double click. You should see the splash screen for a sec.
Step 3: After the splash screen goes away, open Notepad or Your Favorite Text Editor. Not gauranteed to work in a DOS text editor, such as VIM, so use 'Pad or Word or something. Make sure you have a blank document, or KeyCommander will eat up what you've allready typed.
Step 4: slowly type in /command
This may or may not work right from this point. I've tested it on WIn98 and Win2k. It did work on 2k, but it didn't in 98.
If it worked, you should see something like this in your text editor screen:
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17:39:00>
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Welcome to KeyCommander!Try typing in 'List'. Go ahead, just right in your little text editor.
Cool, eh?
Type in 'View http://google.com [enter]'
Nifty, eh?
Type in 'exit' to get out of it, or hit F12 to purge your /command session.
To exit KeyCommander, press Alt+F12.
It's designed to go anywhere you are. In fact, you can use it in any multiline textbox, or even (risky), your favorite game! Best part is, you don't even need a textbox. You can just /command at your desktop to get in.
I'm planning to add a spellcheck function to spell those nasty words that noone can remember. Also, I'm gonna add a 'Kill' function to stop programs that don't respond. Did you see that SRB2.CHECKGAMES function in the LIST? Yup, it's gonna check for any games on the SRB2 masterserver!
Far from bugless, and in spite of that Windows 98 bug, please tell me what you think!
