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Don't forget to cover the edge case for displaying the operation keys as well, such as ctlr+scroll (zoom in ms office suite), Shift+click (osnap menu in AutoCAD).
@bfritscher
Currently do not have an implementation to display mouse commands on carnac, so I wanted to ask developers to add features, but thank you very much for your implementation.
Can you also implement mouse middle click and scroll wheel commands?
On Windows these commands are especially important in 3D graphics applications.
@kyjelblue
Yes, middle button can be done, how do you imagine highlighting the scrolling? Do you have an example from another app? Since mouse wheel can be repeated events and of different speed/duration.
@bfritscher
I do not know if this is a good example, but I am a user of Blender (an open source 3D app). There was an add-on named Screencast Keys Status in Blender's add-ons. It seems that development has stopped now, and the next link is a blog post that says other developers completely redesigned the structure and design based on the original. Personally I liked the design of this person quite. However, this add-on is no longer being developed as it was originally, and you know, it's only a limited implementation in Blender.
In short, the implementation of the scroll wheel command is supposed to have no relation to the speed and duration in addition to the up and down distinction and repeatability.
@bfritscher
Oh, and for reference, I have a handicap, so I use an HID input device, including a multi-button mouse, to define and use the OS key and modifier key inputs. But carnac does not seem to recognize such input. Can you fix this too?
Congratulation for this job!
Colored circles look great but displaying a drawing of a mouse with the L/R key colored in red or any other strong color synced with the key pressed would probably be a better option - no guessing would be required.
Thank you.
Hello.
Thank you much, that is great news but it took me a while to figure out that I need to remove ALL the check marks from Keyboard to see the mouse picture...and that came with the price of displaying all keys pressed.
I was expecting this to be added like a supplemental feature on top of the existing one: I would still generally use to display only the modifiers keys + whatever are combined with + mouse icon.
A word on modifier key Shift: it doesn't work like Alt or Ctrl: while the latter remain on the screen and are being displayed combined with the next key pressed, like:
Ctrl + F11
Shift is being replaced by the next key so the user sees the following sequence:
Shift
F11 - this being the only thing left displayed.
Also, in order to have Shift displayed some keys must have been pressed recently: if the pause is longer(don't exactly know how many seconds...) Shift is simply not displayed
The mouse icon is sometimes shown when I press on Shift IF the previous thing displayed seconds ago was the mouse icon...really weird.
I tried to attach some picture and video to make this easier but for some reason I can't so I just hope I'm explaining well enough...
Thanks a lot, keep up the great work!
...I must also say that it is a bit confusing the fact that the mouse picture appears to behave like a keyboard feature rather that a mouse one: I have 2 screens and I can see the mouse circles only when I'm clicking on one screen only - my understanding is that it's controlled from the General screen - whereas the mouse picture is displayed regardless the screen I'm clicking in.
Thank you.
Hello.
Another option/parameter for the Keyboard should be to choose the way multiple identical key stroked in a row are being displayed: LLLLL OR Lx5.
Thank you.
Great updates, I had one other question/request. Is it possible for the logger to show more than one modifier key at once? Sometimes I use two or more of shift/ctrl/alt, and it seems to only show one of those keys when I use them in combination. In zbrush I often use ctrl/alt or ctrl/alt/shift.
Sometimes I use two or more of shift/ctrl/alt, and it seems to only show one of those keys when I use them in combination. In zbrush I often use ctrl/alt or ctrl/alt/shift.
You should create an issue if you can provide a repeatable sequence of keys which illustrates the bug.
Just trying different modifiers they show up
Hello,
I'm French, sorry for my English.
First of all, thank you for your application, it is wonderful!
I had a question: is it possible for mouse clicks to be shown on click instead of released?
Indeed, if we maintain the click to move an element, the mouse only appears when released after the movement, whereas it would be more natural to see appear the mouse when clicking, followed by the movement ...
I don't know what you think of that ...
Thanks in advance !
Customizable Size, Colors, Opacity & Multi-Monitor Support (Mouse Icon Too Big #220, Mouse highlight and clicks on multiple monitors #228): You can configure the click ring Size (ClickFadeDiameter), Opacity, Fade Delay, and button Colors (Left / Middle / Right click), and ClickRing.ShowAtScreenLocation now renders click rings at the exact physical cursor coordinates across all monitors in multi-monitor setups.
Upcoming Release: This will be included in the next official release, which will be published to GitHub Releases (both installer and portable .zip), WinGet (winget install doggy8088.Carnac), and Chocolatey (choco install carnac).
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petsagouris commentedon Sep 21, 2016
Don't forget to cover the edge case for displaying the operation keys as well, such as ctlr+scroll (zoom in ms office suite), Shift+click (osnap menu in AutoCAD).
bfritscher commentedon Jun 18, 2017
Hi, I created a first prototype of a mouse click highlighter. Any feedback welcome.
It does not yet cover edge cases (mixing key + mouse)
https://github.com/bfritscher/carnac/releases/tag/mouse_test
kyjelblue commentedon Jun 20, 2017
@bfritscher
Currently do not have an implementation to display mouse commands on carnac, so I wanted to ask developers to add features, but thank you very much for your implementation.
Can you also implement mouse middle click and scroll wheel commands?
On Windows these commands are especially important in 3D graphics applications.
bfritscher commentedon Jun 20, 2017
@kyjelblue
Yes, middle button can be done, how do you imagine highlighting the scrolling? Do you have an example from another app? Since mouse wheel can be repeated events and of different speed/duration.
kyjelblue commentedon Jun 20, 2017
@bfritscher
I do not know if this is a good example, but I am a user of Blender (an open source 3D app). There was an add-on named Screencast Keys Status in Blender's add-ons. It seems that development has stopped now, and the next link is a blog post that says other developers completely redesigned the structure and design based on the original. Personally I liked the design of this person quite. However, this add-on is no longer being developed as it was originally, and you know, it's only a limited implementation in Blender.
In short, the implementation of the scroll wheel command is supposed to have no relation to the speed and duration in addition to the up and down distinction and repeatability.
http://jeh3.net/screencast-keys-status-addon-rewrite
kyjelblue commentedon Jun 20, 2017
@bfritscher
Oh, and for reference, I have a handicap, so I use an HID input device, including a multi-button mouse, to define and use the OS key and modifier key inputs. But carnac does not seem to recognize such input. Can you fix this too?
sap7772000zilla commentedon Jun 21, 2017
Congratulation for this job!
Colored circles look great but displaying a drawing of a mouse with the L/R key colored in red or any other strong color synced with the key pressed would probably be a better option - no guessing would be required.
Thank you.
bfritscher commentedon Jul 17, 2017
Hi I have a new beta release with edge cases and visual symbols for mouse.
Feedback welcome.
https://github.com/bfritscher/carnac/releases/tag/v3-beta
It supports Left, Right, Middle, XButton1 and 2 + ScrollWheel.
sap7772000zilla commentedon Aug 23, 2017
Hello.
Thank you much, that is great news but it took me a while to figure out that I need to remove ALL the check marks from Keyboard to see the mouse picture...and that came with the price of displaying all keys pressed.
I was expecting this to be added like a supplemental feature on top of the existing one: I would still generally use to display only the modifiers keys + whatever are combined with + mouse icon.
A word on modifier key Shift: it doesn't work like Alt or Ctrl: while the latter remain on the screen and are being displayed combined with the next key pressed, like:
Ctrl + F11
Shift is being replaced by the next key so the user sees the following sequence:
Shift
F11 - this being the only thing left displayed.
Also, in order to have Shift displayed some keys must have been pressed recently: if the pause is longer(don't exactly know how many seconds...) Shift is simply not displayed
The mouse icon is sometimes shown when I press on Shift IF the previous thing displayed seconds ago was the mouse icon...really weird.
I tried to attach some picture and video to make this easier but for some reason I can't so I just hope I'm explaining well enough...
Thanks a lot, keep up the great work!
sap7772000zilla commentedon Aug 23, 2017
...I must also say that it is a bit confusing the fact that the mouse picture appears to behave like a keyboard feature rather that a mouse one: I have 2 screens and I can see the mouse circles only when I'm clicking on one screen only - my understanding is that it's controlled from the General screen - whereas the mouse picture is displayed regardless the screen I'm clicking in.
Thank you.
sap7772000zilla commentedon Aug 25, 2017
Hello.
Another option/parameter for the Keyboard should be to choose the way multiple identical key stroked in a row are being displayed: LLLLL OR Lx5.
Thank you.
tigerwin2015 commentedon Oct 1, 2018
@bfritscher Thank you for the beta release! (https://github.com/bfritscher/carnac/releases/tag/v3-beta) It works well. Maybe add it to the master branch and release it?
CODEGOAT007 commentedon May 29, 2019
Hey I'm having an issue with the application... here is a video I made of the problems.
-Chris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1mupM75NEM
mmmcgyver commentedon Apr 23, 2020
Is there a way to keep the mouse circles without the mouse icons showing up in the little shortcut section? This would be a great feature.
mmmcgyver commentedon Apr 23, 2020
You got to hit save for changes to show up.
bfritscher commentedon Apr 23, 2020
I added some options to have more controls on what gets displayed for the mouse keys in my latest update https://github.com/bfritscher/carnac/releases
mmmcgyver commentedon Apr 23, 2020
OMG thank you so much. SO great! I have tried keycastow and Crea Lesson which have both been buggy with zbrush. This works flawlessly so far!
mmmcgyver commentedon Apr 23, 2020
Great updates, I had one other question/request. Is it possible for the logger to show more than one modifier key at once? Sometimes I use two or more of shift/ctrl/alt, and it seems to only show one of those keys when I use them in combination. In zbrush I often use ctrl/alt or ctrl/alt/shift.
bfritscher commentedon Apr 23, 2020
You should create an issue if you can provide a repeatable sequence of keys which illustrates the bug.
Just trying different modifiers they show up
LinearGraphs commentedon Dec 25, 2021
How do I uninstall carnac? How do I open the settings. I clicked the application and it just goes and I can't change any settings or turn it off.
meepmeep007 commentedon Jan 12, 2022
Hello,
I'm French, sorry for my English.
First of all, thank you for your application, it is wonderful!
I had a question: is it possible for mouse clicks to be shown on click instead of released?
Indeed, if we maintain the click to move an element, the mouse only appears when released after the movement, whereas it would be more natural to see appear the mouse when clicking, followed by the movement ...
I don't know what you think of that ...
Thanks in advance !
doggy8088 commentedon Oct 10, 2026
Hi there! 👋
I (@doggy8088 / Will Huang) have stepped in to take over active maintenance of Carnac at doggy8088/carnac (project website: https://carnac.gh.miniasp.com/).
This issue regarding Mouse click visualization, the Mouse settings tab, and hiding/customizing mouse indicators has been resolved in my fork!
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