I just finished a very small glass of Disaronno, an Italian liqueur. I’m never sure if you’re supposed to take shots of liqueurs or if you’re supposed to drink them straight. I don’t think I’d want to do a shot alone, and Disaronno is really tasty, so I figured I’d use it as a night cap. Anyway, it’s almost 1:30 and tomorrow I have a doctors appointment at 8 so I should probably get to bed really soon. However, I’m having a hard time getting myself to hit the hay since I’ve been almost finished with my Keyboard Layout Analyzer for a few days now (I decided to rename it from Typing Analyzer since its really analyzing the layout and not the typing).

I’ve had a lot of ideas over the past two weeks, and rather than go in depth on every detail I’ll give you a really quick run down of this app’s updates:

• Pie chart statistics were added for finger, hand, or keyboard row usage. The pie charts were created using Plotkit, an awesome javascript library that uses Mochikit. I don’t know much about Mochikit, but according to Google Trends and its website’s own lack of updates, its future doesn’t look too promising. Which is a shame, since Plotkit is really cool.
• The hot spot visualization was fixed for IE6 users. Apparently IE6 does not like transparent PNG files.
• A tab view was set up to make viewing the data easier. The tab control comes from Yahoo’s kick ass YUI library.
• A fade-in/fade-out effect was added when processing data. I figured this way of displaying information would make more sense to the user. I noticed when I showed my parents to app my mom didn’t realize she needed to scroll down to see the output. This feature doesn’t work 100% of IE yet, but I’m deciding it works “good enough” for now.

To see the app just click the following link: Keyboard Layout Analyzer

Let me know if you have any problems or have any suggestions.