When I published my Type4me project, someone wrote me pointing out that the steps to send your sequence of characters to the device were a little complicated:
- open a terminal emulator (PuTTY…)
- connect to the correct serial port
- send the sequence
- check if the device answers correctly (OK!)
For this reason, I’ve just finished the first version of a C# application to speed up the process: TypeGUI.
The application’s source code is now available on GitHub!
When you run the application, it shows an icon in Windows systray:
Right-click on it to show the context menu:
First, select the correct COM port:
next, after having copied the text to be sent to Type4me in the clipboard, choose Send clipboard:
(as an alternative you can double-click the icon)
If no communication errors occurred, the text is sent to the device:
