{"id":1670,"date":"2012-04-17T20:44:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T00:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/?p=1670"},"modified":"2014-01-25T17:47:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T21:47:02","slug":"keyboard-layout-analzer-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/keyboard-layout-analzer-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyboard Layout Analzer 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday I uploaded the new version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/keyboard-layout-analyzer\/\">Keyboard Layout Analyzer<\/a>. It has a plethora of new features and charts, and a new layout design. My goal was to create something that was more useful and easier on the eye. <\/p>\n<p>Several key features are currently missing from the app (saving\/loading of layouts, heatmap stats, etc), and I hope to have those finished within the next week or two. I&#8217;ll do a second post, when version 2.1 is released, to chronicle those features. I decided to launch the new app before I had finished everything because I was worried my to-do list would get too large, and I&#8217;d simply just never finish before moving onto another project (I have quite a few unfinished projects). Work is also about to get a little hectic in two weeks, so I figured it was best to launch while I had some extra time on my hands. Below is a list of what&#8217;s new in the app.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Resigned layout.<\/li>\n<li>Code rewritten from scratch (mostly because I just wanted to start fresh).<\/li>\n<li>New configuration keyboard that allows you to set finger placement, finger start positions, and modifier characters for each key. Also supports drag and drop for ease of use.<\/li>\n<li>Drop down for loading sample texts (hopefully more to come soon).<\/li>\n<li>Bar charts comparing fingers are now available for distance and finger usage. For row usage, a row usage bar chart is presented.<\/li>\n<li>Distance traveled is now broken down by finger.<\/li>\n<li>Distance, finger usage, and row usage are displayed by a selectable unit type (percent, key strokes, etc).<\/li>\n<li>Stats on consecutive finger and hand usage have been added in.<\/li>\n<li>An adjustable number of layouts can be compared.<\/li>\n<li>New algorithm for determining the best layout.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Many of the new features are user driven. I received around 8 emails, and they were all extremely helpful in guiding the direction the app took &#8211; so thank you to everyone who gave feedback (even if I didn&#8217;t implement every idea &#8211; yet at least). Hopefully in another week or two I&#8217;ll do another update chronicling the remaining features.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, I had a request to keep the original version intact and available, and have decided to make it available <a href=\"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/keyboard-layout-analyzer\/v1\/\">here<\/a>. If you use IE8 or below, you&#8217;ll automatically be redirected there anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday I uploaded the new version of the Keyboard Layout Analyzer. It has a plethora of new features and charts, and a new layout design. My goal was to create something that was more useful and easier on the eye. Several key features are currently missing from the app (saving\/loading of layouts, heatmap stats, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/17\/keyboard-layout-analzer-2-0\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keyboard Layout Analzer 2.0<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-apps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1670"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1693,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1670\/revisions\/1693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}