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Give your macropad a new 'brain' with my drag-and-drop automation software

2 pointsby robinhartley94about 6 years ago

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robinhartley94about 6 years ago
Just to clear things up, this is a desktop app that you install and run by double clicking, just like any other app. It&#x27;s designed to work with your numpad (either the numeric keypad built into your main keyboard, or a separate USB one).<p>You drag and drop commands like &quot;type text&quot; and &quot;open folder&quot; onto each of the buttons of your numpad. When you then press that numpad button, your automation is triggered!<p>However, to let people hook up their macropads, I made it also listen out for the keyboard shortcuts ctrl + alt + 1, ctrl + alt + 2 etc. as numpad button 1, numpad button 2 etc. respectively.<p>So if you can make your macropad do the keyboard shortcut ctrl + alt + 1, then my software will behave exactly the same as if you pressed numpad button 1 and will trigger the associated automation.<p>Let me know if you have any questions about your specific use case!