Mouse and keyboard emulation using Joystick inputs
This sofware were written because of a friend of mine in need. Due to a medical condition it's incredibly hard for him to click on a mouse or type on a keyboard using his fingers. Moving a mouse using his arms and using his feet for pressing buttons is ok. As an aid he got a small device called JoyBox which is a small box that you connect to your computer and turns up as a mouse. To this box you can connect switches and stuff that in this case were used with the feet.
The software that came along did have one major drawback. Because of my friends interests ( and I would say previous occupation ) he liked to to CAD work and the software he used worked best with a 3 button mouse, and the JoyBox software didn't support the third button. We also had difficulties to make it work as a normal mouse button. Click was ok, but not press and hold. As his medical condition have gotten worse he is also finding it more and more difficult to press Ctrl or Shift on the keyboard while clicking so that keyboard support was needed as well.
So, this software listens for Joystick input (any joystick should work) and lets you configure Tasks with one or more actions in them that is triggered in various ways.
The actions can be for keyboard be of the type key down/up/press or text input. Most keycodes are supported. Mouse actions are down/up/click for left, middle and right buttons. All actions can be followed by a delay which is set in milliseconds.
Actions are grouped into tasks so a task can be for example. To write "Hello World!", press [Enter] and then do a right click on the mouse, all in sequence.
For the moment only digital mouse buttons are supported, and as many of them as the joystick has. There is no software limit (DirectX might have some but not that I know of) on how many buttons you can have. To each button you can assign 2 tasks. How these are executed is somewhat different depending on how you set the button mode. Each button can have one of two modes, trigger or toggle. In the trigger mode a task is executed on button down, and the other when the button is released. This could be for example, middle mouse button down and up. The toggle mode activates the first task when the button is pressed and the second task when it's pressed again. So for example on the first press you might have a task that simulate a "shift down" on the keyboard and when the same button is pressed again you can have "shift up" to release the button.
You basically have to options, either compile and run it yourself or download from https://bintray.com/kmpm/winforms/MoJ . That download should be fairly ok but as stated in the license...
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
- Implement more joystick functions like sliders, PoV etc for input.
- Mouse movement output
- Somehow using the analog values from the joystick in the actions somehow.
- Better documentation.
- Built using .NET 4.0 Client Profile
- DirectX is used to capture the Joystick inputs. SharpDX is the managed code library used to make it work somewhat easier. ( http://www.sharpdx.org )
- For saving some time when it came to the output a library called InputSimulator was used. ( http://inputsimulator.codeplex.com/ )
SharpDX and InputSimulator have their own licenses but..
MoJ is an open-source project, free of charge available under the following MIT License:
Copyright (c) 2013 MoJ - Peter Magnusson
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