Programming Question - Mouse Cursor
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So I'm sitting here browsing the web, getting upset at all the distance my mouse cursor has to travel to get to the links I want to click, sometimes all the way across the screen. I live in a first world country--these are the types of problems I'm plagued by. So my thought is to write a TSR that shows a secondary mouse cursor that hangs out exactly half your monitor's width and height away from the primary one, wrapping around the screen edges as needed, like in the game Asteroids. And whenever you Alt-Clicked, it actually simulates the click as coming from the secondary cursor instead of the primary one. Theoretically this would reduce the total amount of traveling your mouse needs to do, since after deciding where you want to click on your screen, there's a good chance that the other cursor is closer to it. My programming question is: would this be a waste of programming time, or would other people use this? You guys aren't with your families having Christmas dinner right now, are you?
Since you live in a first world country your mouse is probably overweight and could use the exercise by going all the way across the screen to click.
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Since you live in a first world country your mouse is probably overweight and could use the exercise by going all the way across the screen to click.
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Since you live in a first world country your mouse is probably overweight and could use the exercise by going all the way across the screen to click.
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My vote of 5 ;P
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So I'm sitting here browsing the web, getting upset at all the distance my mouse cursor has to travel to get to the links I want to click, sometimes all the way across the screen. I live in a first world country--these are the types of problems I'm plagued by. So my thought is to write a TSR that shows a secondary mouse cursor that hangs out exactly half your monitor's width and height away from the primary one, wrapping around the screen edges as needed, like in the game Asteroids. And whenever you Alt-Clicked, it actually simulates the click as coming from the secondary cursor instead of the primary one. Theoretically this would reduce the total amount of traveling your mouse needs to do, since after deciding where you want to click on your screen, there's a good chance that the other cursor is closer to it. My programming question is: would this be a waste of programming time, or would other people use this? You guys aren't with your families having Christmas dinner right now, are you?
I'd suggest you buy a smaller screen, that will save you some mouse travel expenses in the end. :)
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So I'm sitting here browsing the web, getting upset at all the distance my mouse cursor has to travel to get to the links I want to click, sometimes all the way across the screen. I live in a first world country--these are the types of problems I'm plagued by. So my thought is to write a TSR that shows a secondary mouse cursor that hangs out exactly half your monitor's width and height away from the primary one, wrapping around the screen edges as needed, like in the game Asteroids. And whenever you Alt-Clicked, it actually simulates the click as coming from the secondary cursor instead of the primary one. Theoretically this would reduce the total amount of traveling your mouse needs to do, since after deciding where you want to click on your screen, there's a good chance that the other cursor is closer to it. My programming question is: would this be a waste of programming time, or would other people use this? You guys aren't with your families having Christmas dinner right now, are you?
Why not parse the HTML for links and, if you hold down a key, move the mouse with the slightest of movements to the next or previous link on the page? Oh wait, Apple probably has patented that technique. Marc
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So I'm sitting here browsing the web, getting upset at all the distance my mouse cursor has to travel to get to the links I want to click, sometimes all the way across the screen. I live in a first world country--these are the types of problems I'm plagued by. So my thought is to write a TSR that shows a secondary mouse cursor that hangs out exactly half your monitor's width and height away from the primary one, wrapping around the screen edges as needed, like in the game Asteroids. And whenever you Alt-Clicked, it actually simulates the click as coming from the secondary cursor instead of the primary one. Theoretically this would reduce the total amount of traveling your mouse needs to do, since after deciding where you want to click on your screen, there's a good chance that the other cursor is closer to it. My programming question is: would this be a waste of programming time, or would other people use this? You guys aren't with your families having Christmas dinner right now, are you?
Write a browser add-in for all major browsers that lets you use alt-F3, or some user-defined keyboard-shortcut, to move the focus or mouse-position around between all valid links: perhaps a variation that stays inside the current "container" if the web-page has nested containers, like iFrames. If you hit "enter" after selecting a link by this add-in: launch the link in a new browser tab, or window. This will make you rich, and famous (for at least fifteen minutes), and I'll certainly use it, and your family will appreciate the time they have with you more, since the time you have to spend with them will be shorter for some period of time. Look forward to your CP article with source code, and in-depth discussions of what you did to make it work in IE =>9, Chrome, Opera, FireFox, etc. best, Bill
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle
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So I'm sitting here browsing the web, getting upset at all the distance my mouse cursor has to travel to get to the links I want to click, sometimes all the way across the screen. I live in a first world country--these are the types of problems I'm plagued by. So my thought is to write a TSR that shows a secondary mouse cursor that hangs out exactly half your monitor's width and height away from the primary one, wrapping around the screen edges as needed, like in the game Asteroids. And whenever you Alt-Clicked, it actually simulates the click as coming from the secondary cursor instead of the primary one. Theoretically this would reduce the total amount of traveling your mouse needs to do, since after deciding where you want to click on your screen, there's a good chance that the other cursor is closer to it. My programming question is: would this be a waste of programming time, or would other people use this? You guys aren't with your families having Christmas dinner right now, are you?
If you have a hundred bucks to spare, why not spring for a NaturalPoint SmartNav[^]? /ravi
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If you have a hundred bucks to spare, why not spring for a NaturalPoint SmartNav[^]? /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
Happy Holidays, Ravi-ji, That device you link to takes me back to the halcyon "daze" of BMUG (Berkeley Macintosh User's Group), circa 1982~1983, where, at one of the meetings, some inventor showed up with something called the "Head Mouse" that did some lo-fi tracking based on a headband you wore. As I recall, it responded differently as you nodded your head, or leaned your neck from side-to-side. In my imagination I saw a whole room of people using Head Mouses all in a symphony of strange uncorrelated head gestures: and opportunities galore for on-site chiropractors. It was the usual BMUG theater of the absurd, perhaps topped, in my memory, only by the presentation of the "Mac Chimney" cooling device (this was pre Mac II days) that sat on top of your little Mac, and resembled a giant tin-foil hat. The presenters solemnly claiming its design reduced internal heat by several degrees in your Mac. It must have been at least two feet tall. :) best, Bill
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle
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Happy Holidays, Ravi-ji, That device you link to takes me back to the halcyon "daze" of BMUG (Berkeley Macintosh User's Group), circa 1982~1983, where, at one of the meetings, some inventor showed up with something called the "Head Mouse" that did some lo-fi tracking based on a headband you wore. As I recall, it responded differently as you nodded your head, or leaned your neck from side-to-side. In my imagination I saw a whole room of people using Head Mouses all in a symphony of strange uncorrelated head gestures: and opportunities galore for on-site chiropractors. It was the usual BMUG theater of the absurd, perhaps topped, in my memory, only by the presentation of the "Mac Chimney" cooling device (this was pre Mac II days) that sat on top of your little Mac, and resembled a giant tin-foil hat. The presenters solemnly claiming its design reduced internal heat by several degrees in your Mac. It must have been at least two feet tall. :) best, Bill
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle
Happy holidays to you too, Bill!
BillWoodruff wrote:
BMUG (Berkeley Macintosh User's Group), circa 1982~1983,
I would've killed to have been there! Unfortunately I was firmly entrenched in the northeast at the time (and never left). I think seeing the dawn of modern computing in the late 70s in Calif must've been magical. /ravi
My new year resolution: 2048 x 1536 Home | Articles | My .NET bits | Freeware ravib(at)ravib(dot)com
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So I'm sitting here browsing the web, getting upset at all the distance my mouse cursor has to travel to get to the links I want to click, sometimes all the way across the screen. I live in a first world country--these are the types of problems I'm plagued by. So my thought is to write a TSR that shows a secondary mouse cursor that hangs out exactly half your monitor's width and height away from the primary one, wrapping around the screen edges as needed, like in the game Asteroids. And whenever you Alt-Clicked, it actually simulates the click as coming from the secondary cursor instead of the primary one. Theoretically this would reduce the total amount of traveling your mouse needs to do, since after deciding where you want to click on your screen, there's a good chance that the other cursor is closer to it. My programming question is: would this be a waste of programming time, or would other people use this? You guys aren't with your families having Christmas dinner right now, are you?
I'd be curious to see the algorithm which lets it decide which of the two cursors you mean the click to go to.
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