User manual
The manual explains every feature and every page of the configuration window, and states the rules exactly: what matches, what wins, and what each setting does, with its default. To get something done quickly, start with the Quick start instead.
How it is organized
| Part | What it covers |
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| The basics | How Input.Observer works, the configuration window, the tray icon, and a glossary of terms. |
| Gestures | Drawing a gesture, the gesture library, and how a stroke is matched. |
| Where actions apply | App groups, scope and fallback, ignore groups, regions, modifiers and timing, profiles, and actions that run before or after others. |
| Keyboard | Hotkeys, text expansion, ignore keys, and touch and pen input. |
| Actions | The Actions page, the ways an action can run, snippets, the macro recorder, the sandbox, and global events. |
| On screen | Appearance, gesture trails, hints and messages, and exclusion zones. |
| Settings and maintenance | General settings, scripts, plugins, security, import and export, the configuration file, the console, the license, and troubleshooting. |
Two more parts of the help go into depth on what an action does:
- Steps — building an action from steps in the Steps editor.
- Script language reference — the script language, every builtin and a library of examples.
Conventions
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Bold text is a label exactly as the program shows it: a page, card, setting, button or menu item.
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The manual uses the names Simple mode shows. Where Advanced mode names something differently, the page says so once.
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A section that starts with a note saying Advanced mode. describes something that only Advanced mode shows. See Simple and Advanced.
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The basics — How Input.Observer is put together, the configuration window, the tray icon and the terms it uses.
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Gestures — Drawing gestures, the gesture library, and how a drawn stroke is matched.
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Where actions apply — App groups, scope and fallback, ignore groups, regions, modifiers, profiles and before/after actions.
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Keyboard — Hotkeys, text expansion, ignored modifier keys, and touch and pen input.
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Actions — What an action is, and the pages that build, store, record and test actions.
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On screen — What Input.Observer draws on your screen while you work: gesture trails, hints and messages, and where it never reacts to a click.
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Settings and maintenance — General settings, script settings, plugins, security, import and export, the configuration file, the console, the license and troubleshooting.