KHistory

October 4, 2023 · View on GitHub

🔥KHistory is an elegant & cross-platform keyboard/gamepad key detection and history display tool, no need to install, just run the single executable file (about 900kb in size).

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No installation, single-file download and use

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KHistory Demo

I. Features

  • Keyboard key detection
  • Gamepad key detection
  • Controls
    • Key history record count
    • Transparency
    • Detection frame rate
    • Visual plugin selection
  • Key visualization and customization (custom key layout/remap key names/customize key highlight colors/other)

II. Platform Support

Feature\PlatformLinuxWindowsMacOSRemarks
Keyboard key detection✅✅
Gamepad key detection✅
Control - Key history record count✅✅
Control - Transparency✅✅
Control - Detection frame rate✅✅
Key visualization✅✅Supported plugin extension/customization
Plugin extension✅✅✅

Note: MacOS support coming soon

III. Possible Use Cases

  • Educational tutorials
  • Live streaming
  • Video production
  • Personal operation analysis
  • Other scenarios that require displaying key input records

IV. Demonstrations

Keyboard key detection

Keyboard Demo

Gamepad key detection

Gamepad Demo

V. Plugin Module / Custom Plugins

Developers: You can develop or extend plugins according to your needs to create custom key visualization panels.

Users: You can choose the appropriate plugins for your use case, such as keyboard or gamepad visualization, as shown below:

Plugin Control

Plugin Module Features

  • Basic plugin functionality - Users can freely switch plugins for key visualization based on their scenario (e.g., keyboard, gamepad, etc.).
  • Mini plugin framework PluginBase - Provides standard interfaces and automatically handles key events and layout (key state) updates in the background.
  • Automatic plugin registration - Place the plugin in the kplugin/auto-register directory to automatically register it during compilation.
  • Basic plugins and plugin extensions - Basic keyboard and gamepad plugins are provided, and users can develop their own plugins without needing to understand C++/ImGui.
    • Custom key layout
    • Remap key names
    • Customize key highlight colors
    • Others

Plugin Examples / Basic Plugins

Plugin Base - Keyboard - Basic keyboard plugin

Keyboard Plugin

Plugin Base - Gamepad - Basic gamepad plugin

Gamepad Plugin

Plugin Development / Customization Process - No need to understand C++/ImGui

Note: For plugin details and development, please refer to the Plugin Documentation.

VI. Contributions and Interesting Plugins

Feel free to share interesting plugins in this discussion - KPlugin - Interesting Plugins Discussion

Plugin Set

More introductions/development updates -〉Link