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Author Topic: IDEA: Widget to show info, depending on active window/program  (Read 4093 times)

lenn-art

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Hi y'all!

I'm looking for a widget that shows information, related to the active window or program.

For example: when Office runs, the widget shows text i entered like keyboard shortcuts. Alt-tabbing to Filezilla shows the shortcuts for several most-used commands. Or anything else the user enters.

Is this hard to make? Or, does this exists?

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Re: IDEA: Widget to show info, depending on active window/program
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2013, 10:42 AM »
Hi lenn-art, and welcome to the DonationCoder site.  I recall a thread that requested exactly this sort of application.  Let me see if I can find it.

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Re: IDEA: Widget to show info, depending on active window/program
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2013, 11:27 AM »
Or maybe anandcoral's Stick-a-Note from last year's NANY could be expanded to also display any input sent to the currently focused app, etc.?

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Re: IDEA: Widget to show info, depending on active window/program
« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2013, 12:38 PM »
I readed 2 threads. In fact, there are some solutions, but not satisfying:

https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=28022
Comes up with a AHK-script,
http://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/stickies/
http://www.tagkeys.com

There was a refecerence to an app from Mouser, which could be found in this thread:
https://www.donation...ndex.php?topic=360.0 - sadly, the project (Cheater App) is never finished. There's even a subsubsubforum ;-) https://www.donation...index.php?board=43.0
« Last Edit: January 03, 2013, 12:47 PM by lenn-art »