Keydows

Keydows allows using your keyboard to navigate on Windows.

The program is and will be a WIP for a long time unless I finish it. Hence anyone reading this may not find any use for it. Additionally there is no proper GUI for keybinding, styling, etc.

Test site

Goals

• To learn more about the Windows API.
• To learn more about C/C++.
• To build a tool that could save me having to reach for my mouse.

Implementation

One main app that has hooks for listening to events. Tools are compiled to dlls and use an interface to interact with the main app.

Main app keybinds

Ctrl + Alt + Q - closes the app.

Tools

At the moment there are two tools.

1. Smooth Navigate
2. Overlay

1. Smooth Navigate

Contains

• smooth scrolling with keyboard
• smooth movement for the cursor.

Keybinds

To activate/deactivate the navigation the user has to click Alt + §.

ACTIVATE,      220 // § key,
ACTIVATE_MOD,  MENU // Alt key,

Other keybinds

LEFT_CLICK,    SPACE,
RIGHT_CLICK,   X
MOVE_UP,       W
MOVE_DOWN,     S
MOVE_LEFT,     A
MOVE_RIGHT,    D
SCROLL_UP,     Q
SCROLL_DOWN,   E
SCROLL_LEFT,   J
SCROLL_RIGHT,  L
INCREASE,      R // Base speed control
DECREASE,      F // Base speed control
FAST_MODE,     C
SLOW_MODE,     V

2. Overlay

An overlay grid of character coordinates the user can type to perform a click or other actions.

Keybinds

To open the overlay, Ctrl + ..

While the overlay is open the user may

HIDE,           ESCAPE  // Hide the overlay
REMOVE,        BACKSPACE  // Removes a typed character
CLEAR,         RETURN // Reset typed characters

When the user has entered two (2) characters they may click at the entered coordinates by pressing (almost) any key on their keyboard or ...

MOVE,          C // Move the cursor to the location
DOUBLE_CLICK,  V
TRIPLE_CLICK,  N
QUAD_CLICK,    M

3. To be added

• A way to move and resize windows similar to Alt Drag and utilize the smooth behaviour.

Dependencies

• Windows
• CMake

In the build folder

• libstdc++-6.dll
• libgcc_s_seh-1.dll
• libwinpthread-1.dll

Building

Run CMake Build on a Windows computer in the project root.

License

MIT