screenkey VS FlatLaf

Screenkey

That's screen key

Would http://carnackeys.com/ do for you? If you prefer a commercial solution https://www.recmaster.net/how-to/show-keystrokes-while-screen-recording-2 might be of interest, unless you want to switch to Linux and use https://gitlab.com/screenkey/screenkey

Not the exact solution but you can try screenkey

the app I'm making is basically a screenkey clone ( but would ideally be cross-platform ) and to get the app to show the keys the user is pressing I need global keyboard events so the user doesn't have to focus the window to get it to work ( like what winit does ),

You mean an on-screen display for keyboard input? screenkey, no idea about using it with OBS though.

There are tools like Screenkey1 that show every key you press. I'm however not aware of a tool that specifically only shows pressed keys that are bound in sxhkd.

Thanks for the kind words! The app I'm using here is called screenkey

Screenkey (https://gitlab.com/screenkey/screenkey) is a few thousand lines of python for a simple overlay showing the keys you just pressed, are there any less sucky alternatives?

JVM UI isn't so bad. I've written some pretty modern looking UI with it. The sophisticated controls are all there.

Modern JavaFX theme: https://github.com/mkpaz/atlantafx

Modern Swing theme: https://github.com/JFormDesigner/FlatLaf

And these days Compose Multiplatform: https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose-multiplatform/

I tend to use Kotlin rather than Java but of course Java is perfectly fine too. You can also use Clojure.

If you use any of those frameworks you can distribute to Win/Mac/Linux in one command with Conveyor. It's free for open source apps and can do self-signing for Windows if you don't want to pay for the certificates or the Store (but the Store is super cheap these days, $19 one off payment for an individual). Also supports Electron and Flutter if you want to use those.

From those frameworks you can then access whatever parts of the Windows API you want. Flutter even has WinRT bindings these days! So it's not quite so bad.

FlatLaf, a modern open-source cross-platform Look and Feel for Java Swing desktop applications, brings exciting new features in versions 3.0 and 3.1 🎉 😀

Here’s the link to the “extras” subproject, and there you’ll find a section on the “UI Inspector” tool.

Swing with FlatLaf - https://github.com/JFormDesigner/FlatLaf

Take a look at FlatLAF:

https://github.com/JFormDesigner/FlatLaf

They have done a great job bringing a modern appearance to the Swing components.

Creating your own Look and Feel is a huge task (just look at the size of e.g. the FlatLaf code.

I too find it a bit frustrating at HiDPI. Best I've come up with is to use https://github.com/JFormDesigner/FlatLaf

And as far as Swing's aesthetics, I only agree with the sentiment that 'it's ugly' if a custom LAF isn't used, like one from flatlaf.