Picture A 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 | License | Runs On |
Button Multiplexer Application | Download Link | Freeware | Windows 9x/2000/XP/Vista/7 |
Button Multiplexer Tutorial / Help File | HTML Help File | N/A | Anything |