Description
This program is an On-Screen Display or a Heads-Up Display for keys. It displays every key or mouse button press at a clearly visible text size. It is meant to aid desktop computer usage. It is especially useful while chatting or for occasional typing. You can see the text easier without needing to adjust system fonts, scaling or use zooming software. KeyPress OSD also does text expansion / auto complete so “brb” will expand into “be right back” or “ty” into “thank you”. The text expansion is the fastest to use in the industry and very powerful.
This application can also be used for screen casts or presentations, by disabling the KeyPress OSD typing mode at Preferences.
Quick Start Presets are available to help you get started easily.
Numerous unique features, options and settings are available in the different settings windows provided in the program, such that everyone can find a way to adapt it to personal needs and adjust it to fit your style.
The typing mode has full-support for Cyrillic, Greek and Latin [extended] alphabets and almost any language based on abugida scripts: Bengali, Devanagari, Telugu, Tamil, and so on…
It also sports partial support for Right-to-Left [RTL] keyboard layouts, such as Arabic. For these, caret navigation is disabled.
Video presentation: https://youtu.be/LKvhqTeb9sg
Official homepage: https://keypressosd.com/
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Support for at least 200 keyboard layouts. It recognizes key names with Shift, AltGr, and dead keys for each of these layouts. Full support for Cyrillic, Greek, Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil and more.
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Automatic detection of keyboard layouts.
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Typing mode. It shows what you are typing in an expanding text area.
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Virtual caret/cursor navigation. Navigate through typed text in the OSD in synch with the text field of the host app. Basic support for text selections, copy, paste, cut and undo with Ctrl+A/Z/X/C/V.
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Customizable automatic text expansion, e.g, 'btw' expands to 'by the way', or 'bbl' to 'be back later'.
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Multi-Clipboard aka Clipboard History. You can easily retrieve previous clipboard contents and text typed in the OSD.
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KeyPress Beepers. Distinct beeps for different types of keys and buttons or when typing with Capslock.
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Mouse keys. Easily move the mouse cursor with the numpad keys. This is one of the most advanced implementations for this kind of feature, with unique capabilities.
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Toolbar for enhanced touch screens support.
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Indicators for Caps Lock, Num Lock and Scroll Lock states.
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Customizable visual mouse clicks and mouse halo to indicate its location, and flash mouse cursor after idling.
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Easy to configure with many options in Settings windows to toggle features and customize behavior and look.
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Customizable OSD size, position, font, colors and behavior.
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Mouse Spotlight - have the entire screen dark except for an area around the mouse cursor.
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Full multi-monitor support.
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Advanced super fast text expansion. Dynamic snippets, variables and parameters.
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Display a list of previously pressed keys, useful for video tutorials.