RE: Programmable Keyboard Modules for less mouse clicks

["Darin Schnetzler" <darins@xxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI: Another possibility is a program call QuickMacros found at
http://www.quickmacros.com.  If you are not a programmer then you will be
limited to mostly recording keystrokes and mouse clicks and playing them
back with a hot key (for example Ctrl+F8).  On the other hand if you are a
programmer then the sky (or at least your programming abilities) is just
about the limit.  We used the program to automate the process of scanning
pages into photo editor, saving the pages as tiff files and inserting the
tiffed pages into the end of a PDF document.  All the user has to do is swap
pages on the scanner and click buttons on a couple of menus and the program,
using mouse clicks and key strokes, does all the changing of compression,
posterizing, rotating, etc... for them.  Its price goes down with volume so
4 copies are only $20 each.  It can do some weird things such as having a
menu pop up at the location where you are typing to give options to choose
form.  I've found it useful for inserting unicode characters into a Word
document but it took some special programming examples I got directly from
the author of QM to do it.

PS: We are using the 3m touch monitors long before I knew about QuickMacros
and we really do like them.  We had a problem with one of the monitors
graying out on us and we had to send it back twice to get it fixed.  I can't
blame 3m for failing to fix it the first time because the problem was one
that sometimes didn't show up for days and when it did show up it was
usually around 2 in the afternoon after being turned on for several hours.
They had it on for several days straight the first time and it never failed
for them.  It got where it was happening everyday before I sent it back the
second time and they fixed it.  Also, if you do buy the 3m monitors I very,
very strongly recommend that you save as least one set of the packing
material.  I should have been saving the packing material but we at one time
had a room of the stuff for every model of everything we owned and over a
period of three years we never used a single item of it.  Right now I'm
saving only the packing material for flat panel monitors because they are
more fragile compared to most electronics.


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Darin Schnetzler          --  Computer Technology Specialist
Pickler Memorial Library  --  Truman State University
100 E. Normal St.         --  Kirksville, MO 63501-4221
Phone: 660 785-7410       --  Fax: 660 785-4538


-----Original Message-----
From: innopac-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:innopac-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Kenny
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 4:55 PM
To: innopac@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Programmable Keyboard Modules for less mouse clicks

I am getting a lot of complaints from users that there are just too many
mouse clicks required at the circulation counter.  A vendor as loaned me a
USB 20 key programmable keypad.  I'm now looking for the most useful key
combinations to program into it.  Does anyone out there have a list of
keyboard shortcuts specifically designed for the circulation counter?
I'm especially looking for combinations for check out, check in and borrower
registration. 

 

 

 

John Kenny

Millennium Implementation Coordinator

Assistant Chief of the Main Library

San Francisco Public Library

100 Larkin Street, SF CA 94102

(415) 557-4210  fax (415) 557-4205

 



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