u338steven/UIAssistant

Assist UI for Windows

UIAssistant

(This readme is written in English and Japanese mixed. 藪からスティックに日本語がトゥギャザーしてます。)

UIAssistant is a Windows tool for supporting your UI a little.

Features ex.

• Hit-a-Hint: You can click quickly a button in most window with keyboard.
• Search by Text: You can search a window for a string by input text.

New Feature(ver.0.2)

• Spatial Navigation

New Feature(ver.0.3)

• Keybinds Maniacs

UIAssistant is under the MIT license.

Features

• Support plugin
• Customizable Theme(WPF), Keybinds
• Multi-Languages
• Hotkey-Command-Driven
• Do not steal focus from current window
• Support Migemo, cannot input from IME(なので日本語入力ができません(ただし開発者は日本人))

Requirements

• Windows7 SP1 or later
• .NETFramework 4.6

Quick start

Installation

You can download from here(Releases) (include Migemo ja-JP, zh-CN and zh-TW Dictionaries)
Uncompress it and run UIAssistant.exe

Administrator permission are recommended for running UIAssistant.
Otherwise, in some cases, UIAssistant cannot enumerate widgets in a window.

Hit-a-Hint

Hotkeys

Enumerate widgets in current window

Default keybind: Ctrl+Alt+E

Enumerate widgets in taskbar

Default keybind: Ctrl+Alt+R

Enumerate divided screen elements

Default keybind: Ctrl+Alt+G

Enumerate running apps

Default keybind: Ctrl+Alt+Q

Keybinds

Show/Hide usage

Default keybind: LeftCtrl+U

Quit

Default keybind: Escape

Search by Text

Hotkeys

Search strings in current window

Default keybind: Ctrl+Alt+T

Search strings in focused container

Default keybind: Ctrl+Alt+L
container: ComboBox, ListBox or ListView

Search commands in current window

Default keybind: Ctrl+Alt+K
commands: RibbonUI, Menu or Toolbar items

Keybinds

Show/Hide usage

Default keybind: LeftCtrl+U

Quit

Default keybind: Escape

Settings

Rightclick Tasktray icon -> Settings

Known issues

• Cannot almost enumerate widgets of Explorer.exe
• Cannot almost enumerate widgets of some web browsers (e.g. Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge)
• Few validations(Settings window may be a pandemonium)
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Report bugs

Please provide the information below:

• UIAssistant version or commit number
• Windows version
• The steps to reproduce the bug

if you have:

• Exception information
• Logs from UIAssistant\logs
• Screenshot

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Planned features

• Auto-Updater
• Spatial Navigation Added in ver.0.2
• Vim-like keybinds on Windows Added in ver.0.3
• Command direct input

TODO

• Write wiki for details
• Refactor, Refactor, Refactor

Acknowledgements

This project is influenced by a number of other projects. Notably:

• Keysnail
• Wox

Donation

If you wish to help me

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license, Copyright (c) 2016 u338.steven.