K-Macros

A simple keyboard macros desktop app made with React and Electron.

How to run

• navigate to the project's root folder and run npm start to run in dev mode.

• To build a production build, run npm run electron-pack in the project's root folder.

How It Works

• The user adds their desired keyboard macros and is stored in a json format.

• The app listens to the keyboard events on the main Electron thread using ioHook.

• If a registered macro is detected, the corresponding key mapping is retrieved and is programatically pressed.

• DFS graph traversal is used to detect any loops in the given macro sequence.

  Ex: assume the following macro sequence 1 -> 2 -> 3 -> 2
  
  
  
  Clearly, this macro sequence contains a loop and may cause problems. This can be solved by modelling the macro
  sequence into a directed graph and use DFS traversal to check if a node was visited twice.

Screenshots

Future Work

• Use Robotjs package instead of the currently used one.

• Remove the 100ms introduced delay.

• Add more settings and suggested options.