Great overview, guys! Here it is again, just collected together. Maybe
Russel could include it inside the next zip file...
When is keytrap better suited to the task than PowerPro?
1. There are some keys that PowerPro cannot access (such as some of
the special keys on a Logitech keyboard) that Keytrap can successfully
reprogram.
2. Some keytrap services are unique, or better that the powerpro
equivalents:
- .trap (stops all keyboard input)
- .waitkeys waits for a key to be pressed, and then continues with
a script
- enable/disable/send ctrl+alt+del
3. Ability to use any key as modifier
4. Ability to control whether hot key is signalled on key up or key
down
5. Ability to control whether or not key is eaten.
6. (Unsure) Double tap feature: For f keys and ctrl/shift/alt,
PowerPro lets you say that two taps in quick succession with no
other key being pressed are needed to activate the hot key. Can
keytrap do this?
The latest version of PowerPro has narrowed the gap, for example
the new exec.tracekey() replaces the need for keytrap.scanmode,
but there are still good reasons for using keytrap:
(a) it allows more detailed control of what will trigger a hotkey
(b) potentially more possible hotkeys from extra modifiers
(c) it provides a more powerful version of the *keys command
(d) it has more keyboard diagnostic/enquiry tools
Those advantages are achieved by:
- you can use keytrap.sendkeys as an extended version of *Keys,
sending a keystroke specified as a Scan Code, or as a Virtual
Key code, or both - plus you can send keydown or keyup alone,
rather than only being able to send down+up
- you can use keytrap.sendkeys as the command in a keytrap
hotkey or a Powerpro hotkey, thus remapping the keyboard
- you can set either keydown or keyup, to be the hotkey's trigger
and specify whether a hold-down will auto repeat
- choose whether a hotkey is eaten or passed through to the active
window, as well as doing the hotkey's command
- specify for individual hotkeys whether it waits for the
modifier(s) to be up before executing the command (in PP native
hotkeys this is a general setting for all hotkeys)
- you can create more modifiers; for example PP native hotkeys
can now use RightCtrl down-up as a hotkey, but keytrap can use it
as an extra modifier. If you use the Right varieties of Ctrl,
Shift, Alt and Win as extra modifiers, in addition to the usual 4
left modifiers, that is potentially several thousand extra hotkeys
(permutations of up to 3 modifiers out of 8, combined with any of
the 100 normal keys) if you can remember that many hotkeys :)
In fact any key can be a modifier so there are more than a million
possible hotkeys.
- you can reset phantom pressed keys (all keys or a specified key)
meaning keys which the system thinks are still pressed when
physically they are not held down.
- you can get a list of currently pressed keys
- return either the SC or VK of the next key pressed
- enable/disable Ctrl-Alt-Del (useful for "kiosk" situations,
demonstrations, classrooms, etc)
- specify multiple semi-matching hotkeys, then use the optional
"stop" parameter, so one keypress might optionally trigger more
than one of your keytrap hotkeys
In summary, as well as providing more flexible hotkeys
it can be used in scripts to simulate more kinds of keyboard actions.
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