zero point nine

Download installable AIR file
Requires AIR 2 Beta 2 Runtime +
Windows .NET v3.5

My aim here was to get familiar with AIR 2′s new capability of interacting with external processes’ standard streams.

One useful way of learning how to use a new feature is to proceed directly to trying to abuse it.

To that end, this AIR application takes in a fairly continuous stream of uncompressed binary image data from a native process’ standard output. My hope was to get real-time screen capture updates into AIR at a decent frame rate.

Details and source code after the break–

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This one’s pretty niche: A small Windows utility that emulates the left and right mousebuttons using the keyboard. Specifically, using the right Windows key and the right Alt key.

Why? Because I use a MacBook Pro running exclusively in PC-mode, and I can’t stand how the mouseclick is implemented with its button-less trackpad. So yeah, pretty niche…

Sorry, no UI to change the hotkey assignments. If you’re comfortable with C#.NET, the source code is included in the zip file. It may be useful to examine if you’re interested in learning (1) how to capture keystrokes globally in Windows or (2) how to generate mouse operations programmatically, using some dreadful-looking Windows API interop code that I tried to learn as little as possible about in order to get to work.

Download (source included)