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Grouping Characters
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Quick Key allows you to group characters into personalized sets, and save them to disk.
Usage Quick Key can’t fit all 65,000 characters on your screen at the same time, so they are organized in to logical groups called “charsets”. These are saved as .charset files, and are used and modified in the Character Grid.
By creating personalized character sets you will save yourself time and screen space. Smaller, more focused groups are easier to manage, and are faster to respond Although Quick Key can display charsets with more than a few hundred characters, it can become unresponsive for long periods of time.
Included Charsets To load a character set, click File > Open on the Toolbar, and choose a charset. Quick Key includes about 220 charsets.
Directories By Language Character sets by category By Font Font-specific character sets All All 65,000 chracters, split into 1024 chraracter groups View Filters Can be used in conjunction with charsets to apply filters. Text Styles Similar to View Filters, but these overlay formatting when opened instead. Files Ascii The 256 characters that are almost universally supportedTips: To quickly create a charset from an existing one, choose New Copy of this Charset from the File menu. If you are in possession of a document that already contains the characters you need, use Import from File. Use this to drag and drop (right mouse button) text selections to the character grid.
Help Wanted Help us out! You can make your donation to the Quick Key project in the form of a charset. The Unicode standard defines tens of thousands of characters, and we are a long way from organizing all those into really useful groups. Please email us the characters sets you have customized to help you with your job; we will upload them to this page for everyone to enjoy. With each new release these files will be included.
Filtering Character Categories Filters may cause some headaches, but I think once you get used to them they will come in handy. Filters are categories of characters, defined by the Unicode standard, which can be used selectively to narrow the number of characters you see in the Character Grid. For example, by default, characters in the categories Format, Control, Private Use, Other Not Assigned, Other Number, and Surrogate are hidden. These characters are unlikely to be used by anybody but a software developer or systems administrator. Your filter selections will be saved with your character set, but you can turn this off in the File menu. Character set files can contain any combination of Font Settings, Filters, and Characters. When a character set is opened and it does not contain one of these categories of information, the font settings, filters, and even characters are used from the last character set, essentially merging the two. Filter settings are found in the Filters menu on the Toolbar Form.
Picking a Font Most fonts only support a small subset of the available characters; for the rest they display a generic rectangle. Arial Unicode MS supports an amazing selection of the Unicode specification. It contains 51,180 glyphs, and is bundled with Microsoft Word. I recommend that you use this font as much as possible while working with Quick Key, so that you can view the largest number of characters. Keep in mind, however, which font the destination application is using, as this will determine the result.
All fonts are different In Quick Key, all characters will be displayed using whatever font is currently selected in the Toolbar. You may notice that when a character is transferred to another application, the appearance or shape of the character changes. This is because Quick Key and the destination application are using different fonts to render the character. If both fonts are correctly designed, and use the Unicode standard, the only change should be the style of the character. If a completely different character appears, you are using a non-standard font in either Quick Key or the application. Always use a standardized font to ensure sure that the document will be readable in the future. If in doubt, change the font to Times New Roman and verify that the letters appear correctly. As Quick Key does not transfer font information along with characters, I recommend that you set the font to Arial Unicode MS and leave it there. This eliminates any confusion you may have when opening a charset and seeing rectangles.
The Toolbar Here you can load a different character set, save one you have modified, or change how characters are displayed. Keywords and Filters are controlled here. To display the toolbar, right click the Character Grid title bar or the system tray icon, and choose Toolbar.
Character Grid The character grid is what you will use when sending characters to other applications. Most functions can be accessed by right-clicking objects in this window. The title bar menu allows you to modify appearance, functionality, and open a recently used charset. You will also notice the two icons next to the close button. These enable the auto-hide and lock features respectively. The character grid displays all characters in the current charset that match the currently selected filters. To move characters around, click the Drag mouse button (left) on a character.
Although using right-click menus to deal with characters one-by-one is often sufficient, you may need to make mass deletions or modifications that require a more powerful method. To do this, open the Toolbar, the click Tools>Edit Characters as Text. Now you can perform modifications on selections of characters.
Legacy charsets If you have a version of Quick Key released before January 24, 2006, please avoid the following character sets. These character sets are extremely large, and unsuitable for viewing in Quick Key. These were generated by an automatic utility.
Unicode Ranges\CJK Unified Ideograph Extension A.charset Unicode Ranges\Chars (31,130-42,124).charset Unicode Ranges\Chars (1-31,129).charset Unicode Ranges\Hangul.charset Unicode Ranges\Private Use Area.charset Unicode Ranges\Yi & Yi Radicals.charset Symbols\Mathematical Operators.charset Symbols\Daash Punctuation.charset Languages\Times New Roman\Times New Roman.charset These have been left in newer versions because they are useful, but will display a warning. Fonts\Times New Roman.charset Fonts\Microsoft Sans Serif.charset Fonts\Courier New.charset
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Keystroke Emulation
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Keystroke Emulation is the quickest way to type characters with Quick Key. It is instantaneous, and allows you to target specific applications like MS Word or Excel.
Sending Characters In addition to standard copy and paste methods for transferring characters, Quick Key also supports keystroke sending and drag and drop. Keystroke emulation is often the preferred method of transferring characters, as it requires only one click and can target individual applications. Unfortunately, keystroke emulation is only as reliable as application that is receiving the keystrokes. Some applications respond to key presses slowly and may miss the emulated keystroke due to its short duration.
Keywords Keystroke emulation first requires that the target application have focus. Quick Key takes an unusual approach to determining which window to bring to the front by using Keywords. The keyword for an application is determined by its internal class name. Most applications will already have their keywords listed in the Toolbar, but more can be added in Options.
Default Keywords Microsoft Word – OpusApp Microsoft Excel – XLMAIN Microsoft Outlook – rctrl_renwnd32 Microsoft Access – OMain Microsoft PowerPoint – PP10FrameClass OpenOffice – SALFRAME MSN Messenger – MSBLClass Outlook Express (Compose E-mail) – ATH_Note Calculator – SciCalc Notepad – Notepad Word Pad – WordPadClass My Computer – CabinetWClass Internet Explorer – IEFrame Mozilla Firefox – MozillaUIWindowClass Registry Editor – RegEdit_RegEdit Microsoft Visual Studio – wndclass_desked_gsk CMD.EXE Console – ConsoleWindowClass PuTTY – PuTTY Picasa – ytWindow
Options In the Options window you can modify Keywords and mouse settings. There is a tab for each mouse button, and the checks on that tab represent actions that will take place when the button is clicked on a character. To find the keyword for an application, you must enter the title bar text exactly as it appears into the find utility.
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