WinKeySim

WinKeySim is an innovative and easy-to-use application that will give your keyboard macro support for practically any Windows program that supports keyboard input. Generally speaking, if it can be done with the keyboard, it can be done with a WinKeySim macro.

WinKeySim works by simulating keystrokes to your target Windows application. The target application believes that the user has manually typed in the keystrokes using the keyboard when, in fact, the keystrokes are being fed into the keyboard buffer by WinKeySim.

To use WinKeySim, you create a macro using a very simple scripting language which consists of the characters you wish WinKeySim to simulate for you and a few simple tags that WinKeySim recognizes as directives, such as the [!NNN] tag that tells WinKeySim to pause for NNN milliseconds to allow the target application to complete a task.

Some examples are included on this page to give you an idea of what I mean. The online help file contains a tutorial to get you started creating your macros. You don't have to be a programmer to do this.

Your macros are always available to you via a popup context menu when you right click the mouse on the WinKeySim icon, which is placed in the System Tray next to the system clock usually located on the lower right hand corner of the screen in Windows.

To use your macro, you select it from the popup context menu and then click on your target application window where you wish WinKeySim to simulate the keystrokes that you defined in your macro definition.

It is projected that the most common use for WinKeySim will be for creating login scripts. For example, if your login requires that you enter your username, followed by the tab key, followed by your password, followed by the enter key, you can create a macro to help automate the process