I'm just a beginner learning how to program. I'm a medical transcriptionist and would like to make my own custom text expander. This program would replace text as type correcting for typos and also convert abbreviations into longer text.
I'm wondering the best way to do this.
What Im thinking is I need to:
1) monitor the keystrokes
2) learn how to insert text (or keystrokes) into whatever is being typed. For example, if someone types "cho" the program would change it to cholesterol, or "tpwio" the program would change it to "the patient was incredibly obese"
so, it would have to delete the abbreviation the person typed then insert the right text. This needs to work in Word but would be nice if it could work in any program.
3) create some kind of database that can be saved to the computer and edited by the user which defines which abbreviations and typos are to be changed into what..
Thanks for any help. or just suggestions on the commands general way to do this would be great.
I'm wondering the best way to do this.
What Im thinking is I need to:
1) monitor the keystrokes
2) learn how to insert text (or keystrokes) into whatever is being typed. For example, if someone types "cho" the program would change it to cholesterol, or "tpwio" the program would change it to "the patient was incredibly obese"
so, it would have to delete the abbreviation the person typed then insert the right text. This needs to work in Word but would be nice if it could work in any program.
3) create some kind of database that can be saved to the computer and edited by the user which defines which abbreviations and typos are to be changed into what..
Thanks for any help. or just suggestions on the commands general way to do this would be great.
