The key logging window

This shows a display of all keys pressed while the movie was being recorded. You can search for a specific word and jump to the frame in which it is typed.

 

How to display the Key Logging window:

From the Player, select the KeyLog item from the View menu.

 

The Key Logging window can either float above the movie area, or be 'docked' to the side of the movie area. Use the 'Dock' and 'Undock' buttons to select the configuration you prefer.

 

Viewing modes

There are two ways that the window can show key press data: "Raw", which shows all key presses in a sequence and "Sentence" which groups together presses into words and lines, and is more easily readable.

Sentence mode attempts to simplify the display by showing you the results of edits and corrections. For example, if a user mistyped "Treasure" as :

 

Treasire

 

And then corrected the word by hitting backspace three times and retyping "ure", you would see in the Key logging window, in Sentence mode:

 

Treasure

 

BB FlashBack Express has combined the key presses together. However, it can only do this for simple cases, where the backspace, arrow and delete keys are used.

Additionally, each key press or sentence can be displayed with a "timestamp" - the time, relative to the start of the movie, that the item was typed.

 

 

How to search for a word typed within the movie:

  1. On the Key Logging window, type the word or part of a word into the Search for field.

  2. Click the Search button. BB FlashBack Express will look through all the key presses in the movie for that word and jump to the frame where the first letter of that word was typed.

 

The Auto-locate feature

If the Auto-locate box is checked, as your cursor moves through the Key Logging window, BB FlashBack Express will always jump to the frame in which the letter at the cursor was pressed.

 

 

Exporting key press data

Press the Export button to have BB FlashBack Express can export the key press data, in either raw or sentence format, to XML.