DONE: Key combination tally

[ald4]

I have a new job where I'm required to process a certain number of tickets per hour, but they don't tell you how many you've done at the time. They tell you later.

The keyboard shortcut to finish a ticket is Shift+Enter. I'd like a tally of how many times I've clicked Shift+Enter.



I thought I'd solve this myself using Sharpkeys to remap Shift+Enter to a single key and then find another bit of software somewhere to count how many times that key was pressed, but found Sharpkeys can't do a combination.

Would love an on-screen tally that could be onscreen all the time, like something that goes on top of other windows or displayed in the system tray.

[Ath]

Sounds like a job for Skwire's KeyCounter

[ald4]

Sounds like a job for Skwire's KeyCounter

-Ath (November 25, 2016, 02:03 PM)

Just had a quick look. Looks like it can capture Enter fine but Not a combination like Shift+Enter. 

[IainB]

Use AutoHotkey to detect/capture whatever key combo you desire, and then simply pass/send the relevant trigger key(s) to KeyCounter, or, you could write a key-counting routine in AHK instead - but then, why reinvent an otherwise presumably perfectly good wheel?

[skwire]

Here's a quick'n'dirty AHK script to accomplish what you want.  It'll show the count in the window and the tray icon tooltip (hover the mouse cursor over the tray icon).  There's also a reset count option in the right-click menu of the tray icon.

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. Menu, Tray, Add
2. Menu, Tray, Add, Reset count, MenuHandler
3. Gui, 1: Margin, 1, 1
4. Gui, 1: +ToolWindow
5. Gui, 1: +AlwaysOnTop
6. Gui, 1: Add, Edit, w50 Center ReadOnly vedtCounter, 0
7. Gui, 1: Show, , % " "
8. Return
9.  
10.  
11. UpdCounter:
12. {
13.     GuiControl, Text, edtCounter, % myCounter
14.     Menu, Tray, Tip, % "Count: " . myCounter
15. }
16. Return
17.  
18.  
19. MenuHandler:
20. {
21.     myCounter := 0
22.     GoSub, UpdCounter
23. }
24. Return
25.  
26.  
27. ~+Enter::
28. {
29.     myCounter++
30.     GoSub, UpdCounter
31. }
32. Return

[IainB]

Snap.
Sorry, I should have waited for @skwire to respond.   

[antekgla]

Here's a quick'n'dirty AHK script to accomplish what you want.  It'll show the count in the window and the tray icon tooltip (hover the mouse cursor over the tray icon).  There's also a reset count option in the right-click menu of the tray icon.

-skwire (November 25, 2016, 07:45 PM)

 
So simple...
This drew my attention and I try to make something in Delphi... but try to monitor the keyboard in an application what dont have focus implies keyboard hooks, dlls, API Calls, Virtual Key Codes
This AHK script so simple... Don't have a SINGLE line of keyboard management, only the key combo searched...

Code: Autohotkey [Select]

1. ~+Enter::

... and nothing more.

[skwire]

Did the script work for your purposes?  If so, I'll mark this request as done.

[ald4]

Many thanks!

It's quite a while since I used AHK. I'll need to redownload it and familiarise myself with it again.

[ald4]

Did the script work for your purposes?  If so, I'll mark this request as done.

-skwire (November 26, 2016, 08:05 PM)

Script works great!