Button Multiplexer
Multiply your button potential

Generic keyboard programable buttons
Picture A

Generic Laptop Keys fewer in number!
Picture B
The tool becomes even handier in situations where there is an even lower
number of customizable buttons
Button Multiplexer is a tool written by Ammar Qammaz to enhance the usability of keyboards with programmable buttons.
Typically even a low-end keyboard includes some programmable buttons and its price is increased according to the number of extra functions that can be executed without the use of gui interaction but the ease of a single button push.
No matter how many extra keys a keyboard has its always not enough and so this tool addresses this type of problem.

The concept is the following :
By default in the keyboard pictured on your left ( Picture A )  there are 6 buttons labeled Back , Forward , Play/Pause , Web/Home , Search , Mail.

A typical usage scenario is to assign :

Web/Home - your favourite Internet Browser e.g. Firefox
Play button - Winamp
Search button - Windows Find utility
Mail button - Thunderbird..
Assigning a total of 4 applications to 4 buttons

With button multiplexer you can assign different programs according to the number of keypresses.
The example above could be set-up as follows..
Web/Home :
First Press - Mozilla Firefox
Second Press - Internet Explorer
Third Press - Opera
Forth Press - Your favourite HTML editor

Play Button :
First Press - Winamp
Second Press - VLC
Third Press - Windows Media Player

Search Button :
First Press - Windows Find utility
Second Press - Google Desktop
Third Press - WebBrowser Instance @ your favourite web search engine

Mail :
First Press  - Mozilla Thunderbird
Second Press - Outlook Express
Third Press - WebBrowser Instance @ your webmail website

in this example with just 4 keys you can map 16 programs something that is very usefull

Button Multiplexer DOES NOT require any memory or consume any CPU cycles during normal use of the computer nor does it need to be started up when windows starts-up something that may increase your boot time and/or hurt performance. When you click a button which you have associated with the main executable file , the application is called instantly and after the selection has been determined ( the number of pushes of the button ) the program closes. Even during its runtime it consumes almost no resources as the exe file is 65KB and the memory footprint is 2MB ( and that because of the sounds being loaded to provide audible feedback )

Button Multiplexer is and will be FREEWARE



Name / Description - Link Type LicenseRuns On
Button Multiplexer ApplicationDownload LinkFreewareWindows 9x/2000/XP/Vista/7
Button Multiplexer Tutorial / Help FileHTML Help File N/AAnything