I wrote scancodeWatcher for my Dell Inspiron 8200. The original tool that was installed, Dell AccessDirect, was not very easy to reconfigure and the first two keys were hardwired to "Dell Support" and "Internet homepage". So I started off to write my own tool.
After launching scancodeWatcher it will add an icon (
)
to the Taskbar Notification Area. Click this icon to bring up the configuration
dialog. Here you can assign a program to any keypress (or Alt+<key>).
That way scancodeWatcher works with virtually any laptop or desktop "MultiMedia"
keyboard.
A screenshot of scancodeWatcher 1.2 in action:
Downloads:
feel free to download a copy of the scancodeWatcher binaries, but consider giving me some feedback so I can further improve scancodeWatcher
- scancodeWatcher 1.4a (WinXP,
release candidate)
complete keyboard hook rewrite, no helper DLL needed
keystrokes that are assigned to applications don't get passed through to Windows
runs only on WinXP (?) - scancodeWatcher 1.3 (Win95)
internal changes in the DLL, smaller footprint, compatibility increased.
The INI file is now located in scancodeWatcher's directory.
k eystrokes are passed on to other hook functions and Windows applications.
No more crashes experienced. - scancodeWatcher 1.2 (obsolete)
The GUI is now much more userfriendly.
some DirectX-applications still crash. - scancodeWatcher 1.01 (obsolete)
This is the initial release.
The GUI still needs an overhaul
some DirectX-applications crash