May 17, 2024

CONSOLIDATE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

The obvious use case is placing your generally used hotkeys on duckyPad! Merely create a profile and add them in.

For a lot of functions, you could find an official record of keyboard shortcuts. Simply search “<app title> shortcuts” on Google.

LAUNCH APPS ON WINDOWS USING TASKBAR

One other in style utilization is launching apps. There are two methods of doing this. Right here’s the primary. Discover the app, then Proper-click  Extra  Pin to taskbar. Now you should utilize WIN + <quantity> to launch the apps on the taskbar (Determine Bb). In duckyScript, it will be WINDOWS 1WINDOWS 2, and many others.

Bb

 

LAUNCH APPS ON WINDOWS USING SHORTCUTS

This technique works with any file, not simply apps! Proper-click on any file, then choose Ship to…  Desktop (create shortcut). Discover the brand new shortcut in your desktop, right-click, and choose Properties (Determine Cc).

Cc
Dd

Set a hotkey within the Shortcut Key field (Determine Dd). Then you should utilize duckyPad to press this combo to launch something with a push of a button! On this case, the duckyScript can be CONTROL ALT D.

LAUNCH APPS ON MACOS

Go to System Preferences  Keyboard  Shortcuts  App Shortcuts. Press the + button, choose an app to open, assign a hotkey, and arrange duckyPad accordingly (Determine EE).

Ee

ADVANCED SCRIPTING WITH AUTOHOTKEY

You should utilize the free and open-source AutoHotkey for much more subtle wants, similar to controlling mouse actions, executing scripts, and many others. To do that, arrange duckyPad to press a easy combo like WIN + F1, which then will get captured by AutoHotkey to execute a extra advanced customized script in your PC.

Obtain and set up AutoHotkey. Then obtain and save this pattern autohotkey script as an .ahk file: uncooked.githubusercontent.com/dekuNukem/duckyPad/grasp/sources/duckypad_autohotkey_script.ahk. Swap the profile in your duckyPad to autohotkey, then run the script by right-clicking and choosing Run Script (Determine Ff).

Ff

AHK will execute the script. Press any key on duckyPad, and a corresponding message field will seem (Determine Gg). Now you may write your personal AutoHotkey script to do no matter you need! Study extra in getting_started.md on the Github repo.

Gg

For macOS, you may attempt BetterTouchTool to perform the identical factor.