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Post New Requests Here / Key counting script

« on: August 25, 2011, 02:07 PM »

Hi there,

I was led to this forum after searching on the internet for a key counting software, to be exact at skwire's Keycounter discussion page. There I reported a few issues with the software and he replied that those cannot be resolved due to the limitations of Autohotkey; then gave me a simple script for keycounting I could work on. Here's the script:

Are you familiar with AutoHotkey programming at all?  If so, here's a quick snippet I wrote that will do what you want for letters a-z and numbers 0-9.  Press F1 at anytime to see a simple message box showing your keystroke stats.  You could easily extend this to cover all keys, to save/load data, display data in a more elegant way, etc.

-skwire (August 20, 2011, 03:11 PM)

Now, I thought that it would be better if I took the script out of the quote:

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. myKeys := "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234567890"
2.  
3. ; Iterate through myKeys variable and create a hotkey for each letter and number.
4. Loop, Parse, myKeys
5. {
6.     Hotkey, ~*%A_LoopField% up, CountKeys, On
7. }
8.  
9. Return ; End of auto-execute section.
10.  
11.  
12. CountKeys:
13. {
14.     ; Get the third character from the left of the hotkey name.
15.     StringMid, myKey, A_ThisHotkey, 3, 1
16.    
17.     ; Increase character counter and total counter.
18.     %myKey%_Count++
19.     Total_Count++
20. }
21. Return
22.  
23. F1::
24. {
25.     ; Null out report variable.
26.     myReport := ""
27.    
28.     ; Iterate over myKeys variable and build out report, key by key.
29.     Loop, Parse, myKeys
30.     {
31.         myReport .= A_LoopField . ":`t" . %A_LoopField%_Count . "`n"
32.     }
33.    
34.     ; Display report with total at the bottom.
35.     MsgBox, % myReport . "`nTotal:`t" . Total_Count
36. }
37. Return

Unfortunately, I do not know any Autohotkey programming, and I basically want this to cover the whole keyboard, auto save the counter data and load it on script startup.

The reason of why I want this is because I am getting a new keyboard soon and I want to track each keypress individually and total, out of curiosity. If it matters (for which keys to add to the counter), I will be getting a Razer BlackWidow: http://tbreak.com/te...h/files/DSC00056.jpg

The initial issues I found with KeyCounter and I do not want to happen are: repeated keys (e.g. holding W for 5 seconds, it repeats the key many times) were being taken in consideration by the KeyCounter. I only want a single keystroke count; and keys combined with a modifier (e.g. alt+2; ctrl+shift+E, etc.), the modifier was being counted but the key(s) under the modifier were not. I wish they were.

skwire,
Thanks for this snippet, I replied at KeyCounter's discussion thread, but you probably did not see the post, were too busy, or whatever the reason is, it does not matter, but I think that you are reading the forums you are moderating .

EDIT: Ah, I just saw the "Post New Requests Here" page, was I supposed to make the thread there? I am sorry.