Keyboard & Mouse Automation

It is exactly the problem we faced at the beginning with AutoHotkey. We needed 100+ “hotkey-to-macro” to open websites/ files, select accounts/ fonts/ printers, start programs, type special characters and so on.

Actually we had 4 problems:

1. It was almost impossible to remember all of our hotkeys and even less possible to ask a part time employee to remember them. 
2. It was frequent and very damaging to press the wrong hotkey which was activating the wrong macro. 
3. It was time-consuming to find and modify a macro and/or replace a hotkey in our script file. 
4. Some of the hotkeys that we were selecting for our macros were disabling useful existing hotkeys in Windows environment. 

We solved everything with a customizable keyboard like the Enterpad. The graphic overlay on the Enterpad solved the problem of remembering and pressing the wrong hotkey. Actually, the way we built our AutoHotkey script file makes modifications a lot easier. Finally, our script file uses only one hotkey (F10) followed by a three digit number (001 to 120) to trigger 120 different macros. This means that we do not disable other predefined Windows hotkeys.

Our AutoHotkey script template, the Enterpad ready-to-print overlay and a tutorial are available free at www.cedeq.com/enterpad-p120/autohotkey-english.html

Enjoy!

Are you manually doing these simple tasks over and over again?

1. Starting webpages like “google.com”, “yahoo.com\currency”…
2. Typing special characters like †, ‡, ™, ®, ©, é, ê, ç…
3. Typing account or department numbers like “237UJ65”…
4. Starting programs like “dictionary.exe”, “email.exe”, “fax.exe”…
5. Opening specific folders like “c:\windows\user\images”…
6. Opening files like “ToDo.txt”, “Phone.txt”, “ToBuy.txt”…
7. Typing canned answers like “You can reach me at 800-123-4567”…
8. Selecting menu commands like “ALT+F+S”…

Several people are frequently executing these tasks without AutoHotkey simply because it is not practical to remember all the hotkeys linked to so many tasks.

Everything is different with an Overlay Keyboard like the Enterpad because you don’t have to remember any hotkeys. Pressing the right labeled key will instantly generate the hotkey which will generate your number and so on for canned answers, special characters, menu /file /program /website access, etc.