README.md

Ghost Keyboard

Quick and dirty program that displays keystrokes via low-level hooks to a WinForms GUI. Useful for accessibility or screencasts where you want to show keystrokes in real-time.

To use, simply run the program and the ghost keyboard. Resize and position as needed.

The GUI renders an image of a keyboard and highlights regions of the screen corresponding to pressed keys. To do this, the program is powered by a data file describing where keys are located in the image. Each line corresponds to one button that should be reflected in the GUI and has the following format.

[Keys-enum-value|mouse1|mouse2] x y width height

The first field is either an enumeration value from System.Windows.Forms.Keys that corresponds to a keyboard keystroke or mouse1 or mouse2 which correspond to mouse button presses. Custom keyboard layouts can be supported by providing graphics files and datasets for each of the keys.

(The provided keyboard image is taken and modified from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_United_States-NoAltGr.svg.)

Version History: v1 (4/26/2012) - initial release