Well, now that I have some time to tell a story....
I used to play BF2 all the time with my son. He really dug being a medic and squadding up to help everyone out. He got to be pretty damn good at the game, but had some keyboard issues. His hands were too small to hit some of the keys to do really quick combinations. What he really wanted to do was:
Switch to shock paddles, dive on the ground, shock a guy, switch back to rifle.
So I searched and learned about AutoHotKey.
I learned how to make the macros work so that he could do his medic thing with one key stroke. At the time this was considered cheating by the BF2 players.
I had gotten a G15 keyboard with macros. There was a lot of talk in the G15 community about different "scripts" that could be done with the hotkeys. One thing that really ticked people off was the "command rose" that BF2 uses for a variety of commands. You can hotkey to bring up the rose, but have to move your mouse over the command to execute.
I researched the config files for BF2 and found a way to remap the command rose directions to the numpad keys 1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9. I put it out into the BF2 world and was amazed at the response I got.
It seems there was a group of handicapped players who had been doing this project to convert all the commands to voice activated. They were using some free voice package that could remap keystrokes to commands. They could say "weapon - knife" and it would be like the game pressing the 2 key.
When these guys saw that I'd adapted the config to enable actual keyboard commands to that command rose, they went nuts. It was the last hurdle they had to overcome to go totally voice commands.
In the mean time.... I was playing with more macro stuff, including stuff like:
left mouse click down, left mouse click up, move mouse 6 pixels down, wait 50 ms, repeat.
Yep, thats an auto clicker with recoil suppression. That combined with my "crosshair" script that put a red crosshair in the middle of the screen were VERY popular hehe.
Anyways... got this pm on a forum I frequented:
Hey there,
A buddy of mine and I are doing a video podcast. We both use the G15 and did a review of the keyboard. Since alot of information was learned from the G15Mods.com forum and from many of your posts we wanted to make sure we gave you credit at the end of the show.
We hope you are okay with this. Always have appreciated your help on the forum. Although I don't post that much (hardly at all) I do read alot and then test and implement.
Feel free to watch the show and make what ever comments. We hope you like it. Currently it is being hosted on www.livevideo.com/TheGamingInsiders till we get our own site up and running which should be a few weeks. We want to have much higher quality video on the site because livevideo compresses the heck out of it.
I don't have access to that link from work, it might still be there. I actually watched it and saw my BF nickname right there in the credits ROFL.