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GW-Keys

GW-Keys is a project mainly written in C++ and C#, it's free.

Makes Caps lock do what Ctrl did in GW-Basic, allowing you to quickly write down the unicode variants of the old ascii glyphs.

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                                                   by Tim Simpson

                  ◘ ◙ ◘ Last Update: 2011-10-08 ◘ ◙ ◘

    This is a program that allows you to use Caps Lock the way
    Ctrl was used in GW-Basic. ☺ Simply hold it down as you press
    other keys and watch as unicode glyphs appear.

           ☼ Take advantage of these incredible features! ☼

     ► Relive the wonder of youth by making a smiley face only
       only one key press away‼
     ► Use the function keys to create blocks!
     ► Annoy friends and colleagues by sending characters which
       will not be shown correctly on their system‼
     ► Slow your computer to a crawl thanks to a mysterious 
       memory leak‼

        ♣ Caution: Before you have to much fun make sure your  ♣
            editor of choice will save the glyphs correctly.

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‼ WARNING ‼ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ This software comes with no warranty of any kind. It is untested and could do bad things to your system.

¶INSTRUCTIONS¶ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ► Build it by reading my mind and figuring out what to do*, or download the pre-build version here: http://c768127.r27.cf2.rackcdn.com/GwKeys.zip ► Run GwKeysGUI.exe and a little notification icon will appear. To turn off the feature, right click on it and select "Disable." ► If the program seems to misbehave (for example, if you seem to be stuck in glyph mode) hitting escape should fix it. ► If you leave this on all day you'll find its consuming a lot of CPU cycles. Maybe I'll fix it eventually, but for now just turn it off when you're finished making art.

  • J/K! Instructions on this will come later.