 If you want to use your stream deck as a calculator for your Mac or PC, then I've got just the video and the icon pack for you, so keep on watching. Hello, and welcome to Take One Tech. My name is Alec, and today we're talking about the stream deck again, and this is one of a series of videos that I'm doing where I'll be sharing some of the uses that I have for the stream deck, and I'll also have icon packs to accompany all of these as well. So today we're looking at possibly not the most power user of applications, but it's the humble calculator, and what I've done is I've created an icon pack so that I can have all of the controls for the calculator in my stream deck. Now, technically, yes, you can do this with the number pad, but I have added a few extra little shortcuts on there as well, and, well, you can't really beat the feeling of a nice clunky desktop calculator, can you? So let me show you what I'm talking about. If I come over to my stream deck, there you can see I've got my e-cam live controls. I'll drop a little video up into the top corner for the video I did all about how I use e-cam live and how I've got all of my shortcuts set up on stream deck, but I've just added a handy little shortcut to the calculator app here, and if I click on this one, then there you go. This is what we're talking about. It is having all of the sort of number pad and controls for the calculator right on your stream deck. So the way I have done this is that obviously I've programmed all of these shortcuts. They're pretty simple, and it's a good introduction to what you can do with stream deck, really, because it sort of gives you an overview of how you set things up, how you add keys, how you add the hotkeys and things like that, and so that is what we're going to be going through. But if I can just give you a quick demonstration of exactly what this is doing, so here I've brought up on the screen the Mac application, the calculator application. You could equally do this with a Windows calculator as well, but as you'll see, as I type into the stream deck, one second, how can I activate the calculator? If as I type into the stream deck, then it is inputting what I'm typing into the stream deck on the calculator. There you go. And then the other things that I've added in here, so we've got all of the functions that you've got on the standard calculator, but then there's a couple of others such as copy and paste. So some people don't realize that if you've just typed a calculation into the calculator, then just pressing copy, you don't have to highlight anything, we'll copy that text. So if you do need to copy it into an application, it's quite handy to have it open there. Right, so what I'll do now is I'll show you exactly how to build this out on your stream deck. So if I go over to my screen sharing, I've got the stream deck application open, which is just a little menu bar item up at the top here. So you click on that to open the stream deck, and then you can see this is basically replicating the layout that's on the stream deck, and here is the layout of all of those keys. Now, what you could do is you could set this up as a profile, at which is whereby in stream deck, you can have a number of profiles, and then you can have it so that when you open a specific application, it will load that profile. So if I created a profile here called calculator and built this out in that, and then I could just click on here and select the calculator, and what that would do is every time you open the calculator, stream deck would switch over to that icon set. Personally, I don't actually use profiles. I prefer to have things in nested folders, and the reason for that is that I've got a lot of apps that I've created shortcuts for and stream deck icons for, but I'm often using these applications at the same time as each other, and sometimes I don't want it to flick from one set to another just when I hop between applications. An example of this would be, I spend a lot of time on Teams meetings, Zoom meetings, things like that, and we're often discussing things that may be things in Excel, for example, and so I have got my Excel power user icon set for stream deck, so I'll put a link in the top corner when I get round to actually making the video on that one, but what I wouldn't want to happen is if I'm on a Zoom call for it to switch over to the Excel icon set when I'm in Zoom, and so I prefer to just have these things organized by nested folders. It's sort of maximum of, say, three folders deep, but it just means I can hop around between different applications and get in and out of them quite quickly without actually worrying about the profile. So there may be other viewpoints and ways to do this, but this is just the way that I feel comfortable doing it. So for now, what I'll do is I'll just, for the purposes of demonstration, I'll just create another folder in here to give us a blank screen, and so here we go. We've got a sort of blank screen to work with, and what we'll do now is we'll just actually build out that calculator screen. With stream deck down the right-hand side, you've got a number of different sort of groupings of the actions you can add. So we've got some system actions, some specific to stream deck, and then there's other applications as well. There are also a number of other applications that you can add to this. So just down at the bottom, actually just a little bit off the screen, there's a little button that says more actions, and you can click on that. And what that will do is bring up a whole list of other apps and things like that that you can add to your stream deck, and that will just import those different shortcuts and things like that into your stream deck. But for now, we'll just work with the ones we've got. So for this setup, all we actually need is one of these system actions, which is the hotkey one. And so we're basically just drag this into here. We can keep dragging more of these because we just want to build out the set of icons, the set of buttons. So in fact, actually, if I press copy, then I can just actually paste this because they're all the same. Well, there we go. By the magic of technology, I've saved you sitting through all of that pasting of buttons there. And now you can see what we've got is we've got a set of buttons now, which sort of matches what this one is going to look like. So I'll just talk you through now exactly how you go through and add in all of those as well. So this is basically where the number pad is gonna be. So all of the actions that I added in were hotkeys. So basically for you to add in a keystroke. And it's quite simple. We're just gonna add in the keys zero to nine here. So assign hotkey if I click on the zero, oh, sorry, the seven for there on the number pad. So instead number pad number seven, but you can see what we've got here is we've got it's writing that title over the top of it. Well, what we want to do is have that pretty little picture of the number seven. Well, what I've done is I've created the icon pack and I've actually made that available. So you can get that on my website for a couple of dollars. And it's basically just two sets of icons. We've got the numbers in white and in black. I'll just use the black ones for now so they show up a bit better. In fact, actually, I'll use the white ones since the other ones are black. So here you go. What you do is you just go down to the image. In fact, let me just make this a set of, as a list, it might be easier. Now that you've seen what they look like, this is the set of icons. So here we've got the number pad number seven and all we're gonna do is just click in this little key here and then we're gonna go and drag the seven image or the key image and we'll drop that in there. But now we've still got this text over the top of it. So what we need to do is just drop down here where the title is and then you can just highlight this show title. It's obviously what this is because it's got a big number on it but when I'm creating other icons and icon sets in the Stream Deck application, I always do leave a title but I just make sure to hide it rather than just delete the title out of it because then that means when you're looking, if it's not quite so obvious as a big bold number seven then you can always see what it is. So there we go. We've got the number seven. So what I'm gonna do now is just duplicate that for the rest of the keys. So there we go, that's the number pad built out. If I just pop the calculator up again, just in case you've forgotten what the calculator looks like, there's still a few more that I'm going to add and so the next one would be here. I'm gonna add the period and I'll just grab that one from here and drop that over on there as well. Next thing I need to do is add the divide, multiply and so on. So I'll just go and add those in. So for the divide, then that would be the slash key. So the backslash and then for the multiply, that would be the asterisk key. So we'll come in here and click asterisk. Whoops, wrong one. Asterisk. For the minus, we're going to have obviously just the minus key and for plus, we have a plus key. I'm just using the number pad, but obviously you could use the keys along the top, row of numbers as well. And then here we've got equals, so I'll just add that one in. And then now what we want to do is add the icons for all of these. So again, just let's go through and take out the titles and then I'll add in the keys for these ones. Okay, there we go. So that's nearly it for the main keys that you've already got on the calculator. There's another one that's worth having on there and that is the backspace because some people don't realize you can actually just press the backspace and it will delete what you're typing. So if you can see the calculator down here, if I just, in fact, let me just set this up first. If I add in a keystroke and that's just the backspace key. If I just type something into the calculator and then we type in something in here and then if I press that backspace key, then it just deletes one character at a time. So that's always a useful one to have in there. The next one that is actually on the calculator but isn't necessarily obvious for how to clear is the obviously the C button and that is C or AC and that is just simply pressing escape. So for this one, we click to assign keystroke and click the escape key. So that little symbol down there is the symbol for escape. So if I just drag this one down I'll put it onto there and then remove the title again. So you can see we've nearly built it out now. Then next we'll add in our percentage. So again, keystroke, shift and on my keyboard it's five. And then the last two that I've added in is just simply copy and paste. So click to assign shortcut. So command C for that one and command V for this one. So I'll go and drag the copy icon across here. Whoops, I've dragged it to the wrong place. I'll drag it to here, that might help. So that's copy. So the last one I've got up here is actually a shortcut to the app itself. Now I've put keystroke there but that is not quite what that should be. So let me just delete that for one moment and I'll add in it's this one, this open. So this opens an app. So what we'll do here is we'll just go to find the calculator. So that just brings up the typical Mac dialog where you can select the app and I'll just pop that in there. So there you go, it's brought up the calculator app. Now it has actually bought in the icon for the app. So when you do add in a shortcut for an app it does automatically bring in the icon. So let's just hide the show title there. Let's take that off. But if you want, I've also included the same app basically but it's just a slightly bigger version. So you'll see it takes up the full key by adding that in there as well. Incidentally, the reason why you would have that open key just there for the calculator is two-fold really. First of all, obviously, if you don't have the calculator open then when you click on that it will just open the application for you. But also if you are in another application and you're wanting to use this calculator then you will need to make sure that you actually switch over to the calculator app first because otherwise these inputs of Stream Deck is basically just giving you keystrokes. So unless you've got something with a bit deeper integration like the ECAM ones for example where even if you're in another program then if you click on the ECAM sort of change scene button or select a scene as long as ECAM's live is open it will perform that action. Whereas if you're using these keystroke ones in this list here then it's basically just clicking that keystroke. So if I happen to be in a different application like Excel or Pages or whatever it happened to be if I were to press this number one button on the Stream Deck here it would just input the number one in whatever application I was in. So you can also use the open function in Stream Deck as a kind of like app switcher. So you can switch between apps. So this would have the effect even if the calculator is open but you were in another application if you click on this open calculator button it just switches back to the calculator and then you can use the buttons on the Stream Deck. So there we go. We've got that calculator now looking pretty much the same as the one that you saw there except this is the black version and this is the white version. The black ones do sort of show up a bit better on the Stream Deck I think but the white are just more sort of the same as the actual buttons on the calculator app itself. So I can just show you that what that looks like on the Stream Deck now actually. So here we've got the original one that I showed you in black and if I switch over to the white one it's a bit hard to see actually on the... There we go, that's a bit better if it's just not pointing to the light. It is quite clear with the white version but I think definitely the black version is certainly more crisp and clear. But anyway, both of those icon packs are available. If I go back to my e-cam live I can switch back over to my desktop. So both of those icon packs are available on the website. So I'll put a link to that in the description but it's quite easy to remember it's just to take one tech.io. And so if you go over there and click on the store then you'll see that the icon pack is available there for download. 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