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Its a idea for a gesture program.

You hold a key and moves your mouse in a patern, in this case a clockwise circle, and it works as a shortcut!

I know my way sucks and there is a better way to do it.

So if anyone wants to tell me this better way, please feel free to do so!

The top comments are just so i know what to put where :)

;$MousePos[0] <--->
;$MousePos[1] ^---v
;MousePos(0) < $MousePos[0] Left
;MousePos(1) < $MousePos[1] Up

Global $Step = 0

Func _CircularStep0()
$MousePos = MouseGetPos()
ToolTip($MousePos[0] & " - " & $MousePos[1],10,10)
    ;Down-Left
    If MouseGetPos(0) < $MousePos[0] and MouseGetPos(1) > $MousePos[1] then
        TrayTip("","Down-Left",1)
        $Step += 1
    EndIf
EndFunc

Func _CircularStep1()
$MousePos = MouseGetPos()
ToolTip($MousePos[0] & " - " & $MousePos[1],10,10)
    ;Left
    If MouseGetPos(0) < $MousePos[0] and MouseGetPos(1) = $MousePos[1] then
        TrayTip("","Left",1)
        $Step += 1
    EndIf
EndFunc

Func _CircularStep2()
$MousePos = MouseGetPos()
ToolTip($MousePos[0] & " - " & $MousePos[1],10,10)
    ;Up-Left
    If MouseGetPos(0) < $MousePos[0] and MouseGetPos(1) < $MousePos[1] then
        TrayTip("","Up-Left",1)
        $Step += 1

    EndIf
EndFunc

Func _CircularStep3()
$MousePos = MouseGetPos()
ToolTip($MousePos[0] & " - " & $MousePos[1],10,10)
    ;Up
    If MouseGetPos(0) = $MousePos[0] and MouseGetPos(1) < $MousePos[1] then
        TrayTip("","Up",3)
        $Step += 1
    EndIf
EndFunc

Func _CircularStep4()
$MousePos = MouseGetPos()
ToolTip($MousePos[0] & " - " & $MousePos[1],10,10)
    ;Up-Right
    If MouseGetPos(0) > $MousePos[0] and MouseGetPos(1) < $MousePos[1] then
        TrayTip("","Up-Right",1)
        $Step += 1

    EndIf
EndFunc

Func _CircularStep5()
$MousePos = MouseGetPos()
ToolTip($MousePos[0] & " - " & $MousePos[1],10,10)
    ;Right
    If MouseGetPos(0) > $MousePos[0] and MouseGetPos(1) = $MousePos[1] then
        TrayTip("","Right",3)
        $Step += 1
    EndIf
EndFunc

Func _CircularStep6()
$MousePos = MouseGetPos()
ToolTip($MousePos[0] & " - " & $MousePos[1],10,10)
    ;Down-Right
    If MouseGetPos(0) > $MousePos[0] and MouseGetPos(1) < $MousePos[1] then
        TrayTip("","Down-Right",1)
        $Step += 1

    EndIf
EndFunc

Func _CircularStep7()
$MousePos = MouseGetPos()
ToolTip($MousePos[0] & " - " & $MousePos[1],10,10)
    ;Down
    If MouseGetPos(0) > $MousePos[0] and MouseGetPos(1) > $MousePos[1] then
        TrayTip("","Down",3)
        $Step = 0
    EndIf
EndFunc

While 1
If $Step = 0 then
    _CircularStep0()
ElseIf $Step = 1 then
    _CircularStep1()
ElseIf $Step = 2 then
    _CircularStep2()
ElseIf $Step = 3 then
    _CircularStep3()
ElseIf $Step = 4 then
    _CircularStep4()
ElseIf $Step = 5 then
    _CircularStep5()
ElseIf $Step = 6 then
    _CircularStep6()
ElseIf $Step = 7 then
    _CircularStep7()
Endif
    Sleep(40)
ConsoleWrite($Step & @CRLF)
Wend

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No he means gestures

I think the ipad has similar idea but using a touchscreen like the woman does in the electricity advert

I think Maffe is on about using different keys for different gestures.

Like this

This may come into use when win 8 and touchscreens hit the planet

Chim

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Well nothing without software that can understand the gesture

software like these

http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/17/windows/desktop-enhancement/gmote-control-your-programs-through-mouse-gestures.html

Chim

Btw Maffe what do you hope to gain with gestures?

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I believe it's when you make a certain movement with your mouse on the screen (like a circle or triangle etc.) and each shape you draw with the mouse acts like a hotkey.

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you may want to search the forum on this idea. I think it has been discussed before.

Why ?

I don't want a gesture program.

I want to write it! It was just a random idea i had.

Btw Maffe what do you hope to gain with gestures?

Idk. I was just trying to see if it could be done.

My plan was hold Ctrl+Shift then do a gesture.

Different gesture, different things happen.

But if its so wrong that this is just another gesture program, ill call make it discontinued.

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But if its so wrong that this is just another gesture program, ill call make it discontinued.

There is nothing wrong with the idea, people are just pointing out that its not a new idea here. And if you wanted it just for a practical reason, there is no point to the time and effort.

It will be good coding exercise to make your own. I sometimes look at ideas in the example forums and see if I can make it myself. Its interesting when I finish to go back and compare my code to the authors of the ones I took the idea from.

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Btw Maffe what do you hope to gain with gestures?

I apologize to Maffe, i probably didn't phrase that very well.

What i should have said was..

Btw Maffe what do you hope to gain with gestures tied to a hotkey as in my head it kinda defeats the object of the mouse gesture.

However it occurred to me that someone that maybe has rheumatism might not be able to gesture the mouse very well so a hotkey would do the trick.

And its not wrong to make another one Maffe keep going and make it good

Chim

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Btw Maffe what do you hope to gain with gestures tied to a hotkey as in my head it kinda defeats the object of the mouse gesture.

That's true in its own right I suppose, an example of its usefulness might be that it can dramatically extend your options for one hotekey, perhaps you have your keyboard finger hovering over one particular key, and have multiple uses for that key when used with gestures. Then there is only so many gestures you might be able to perfect with the mouse, so when used with a different key, they perform different tasks.

Thinking about it, its a really great idea.

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I usually have my fingers hovering about ctrl + z :)

I had an idea to use gestures to switch between programs.

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That's true in its own right I suppose, an example of its usefulness might be that it can dramatically extend your options for one hotekey, perhaps you have your keyboard finger hovering over one particular key, and have multiple uses for that key when used with gestures. Then there is only so many gestures you might be able to perfect with the mouse, so when used with a different key, they perform different tasks.

Thinking about it, its a really great idea.

A win7 notebook with a mousepad, normally has gestures with "standard" functions/calls. For example, when you move fingers away, it´s normally interprted as zoom out and vice versa (multitouch). I mean "standard", as for example, IE9, word 2003, calypso email, and many other programs, receive zoom in/out with those gestures. Even programs done earlier like word 2003... (I do this on my notebook with win7). Also, the mouse icon changes to the zoom image on my notebook when I zoom (fingers appart).

So, I think there is some kind of "standard" here, like in a mouse, where left click is left click, no matter the mouse kind.

Depending on mousepad + driver sotware installed, you have other kind of gestures, like rotation, very similar to touch devices. Some are configurable, like "3 fingers down" make a click or so on.

I have no idea of what are these "standard" commands, even on plain mouse, where to get them. For that I use mouseGetCursor, mouseGetPos, _iskeyPressed and correlated au3 functions.

Same way mouseGetCursor, I think something like GestureGetOperation, where it could returnan an array whith the operation performed, like zoom, rotation, drag, touch and even mouse operations like left/firgth, mid click, up and down, etc. Also, the amount performed for each one in case of zoom, rotation, number of fingers, etc.

Finally, whe must not forget that win8 is strongly based on gestures and touch.

Jose

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