Any Application
OKeez can control virtually any application on your Windows PC or Mac by sending keystrokes, mouse events, operating system commands, and macros. Explore your computer and network file system from your touch device. Start applications and open files. Stream live screen areas to your controller or monitor files for changes (for example, a log file). And more control options are on the way…
You are probably familiar with a Media Keyboard, i.e. a PC keyboard that has a couple of extra macro keys to control music playback, volume, open your mail application, etc. You may also be familiar with Gaming Keyboards that add a dozen or so extra keys that can hold macros that can be programmed by the user.
While these specialized keyboards offer some basic extensions to a standard keyboard, through macros, they have limitations:
- These specialized keyboards only offer a limited number of possible extra keys.
- The extra keys are usually just labeled like “G1…G12″, meaning the user has to remember which key hold a particular macro without any visual support.
- The extra macro keys are located on either the left or the right side of the keyboard and cannot be moved or switched
OKeez is designed to eliminate these limitations. In OKeez, macros are visually represented on the controller by icons. A macro in OKeez can be a combination of any of the following:
- Keyboard commands, like pressing or holding down one or more keys;
- Mouse commands, like moving the mouse or clicking any of the mouse buttons;
- Media commands, like volume and playback control for audio and video;
- Explorer commands, like exploring & selecting files on your desktop from your touch device;
- System commands, like logging off and hibernating your computer;
- Window commands, like selecting, moving or resizing a window;
- Browser commands, like opening a web site in your favorite web browser
Icons are the standard way for Windows to represents programs and files on your desktop. Generally, you will represent a macro by a single icon on your controller. The icon on your controller is linked to a macro that executes on your desktop. You can use any existing icon image file on your computer or found in online icon collections, or create your own icon images.
However, OKeez can do more than only use static icons to represent macros. In some cases, it is very useful to display an area of a desktop program on your controller and to “touch through” from your controller to your desktop screen, for example in a video game, like shown here.OKeez does this by what we call live areas from your computer screen. In essence, you define what area(s) you want to stream as constantly updated images from your desktop to your controller display. This can result in extremely intuitive controller interfaces for certain types of applications and games.