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Finished Programs / Re: AutoClick

« on: November 20, 2005, 05:03 PM »

Perfect :-). I added a little change - SetMouseDelay, 240. This creates a visual effect of button being pushed down and then action being carried out. This is very useful because you can see that you clicked the right button. Besides, when the button is pushed instantaneously that looks too weird.. maybe it's just me .  Much thanks for quick update! This will make my work much easier, I think.

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Finished Programs / Re: AutoClick

« on: November 20, 2005, 10:19 AM »

That's very good.. The only thing it really needs that's essential is to watch for clicks, drags and right-clicks and not to autoclick if there was one of those. Do you plan to develop this further? Are you using it yourself? Thx!

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Skrommel's Software / Suggestions to improve MouseClock

« on: November 18, 2005, 08:42 PM »

It's really tiny but it made a hell of difference to me. Btw, this app is pure genious. I always forget how much time I spend here or there, and this time tip reminds me.. I'm using it for only 1.5 hours, but I'm already amazed. Much much kudos++..

So here's the little suggestion, not sure if you'll like it:

Replace tid1 line with following:

FormatTime, TimeString, h:mm, Time
tid1=%TimeString%

To make it in format 9:38 PM.

I can't parse 24:00 hour format. It always takes me a few seconds to figure it out. If I ever went to the army.. I think most people would prefer that and AHK makes it a bit of a chore to change to this format.

The other problem was the the taskbar icon flickered all the time so I commented out the line that, I think, updates the tooltip there:

; this tooltip causes the tray icon to flicker.
;Menu,Tray,Tip,%A_DDDD% %A_DD%. %A_MMMM% %A_YYYY%

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Finished Programs / DONE: AutoClick

« on: November 18, 2005, 07:30 PM »

Challenge: a tiny auto hot key script (or a program) that clicks the left mouse button automatically when it's held in place for more than a set interval of time. It must be possible to set the interval somewhere, and to set the distance the pointer has to travel before it autoclicks (if you move it 3 pixels by accident, you obviously don't want it to auto-click). You don't want to get a autoclick if you move the pointer somewhere and left, right or middle click. It would be very good to suppress by holding a definable hotkey (shift?), and to turn it off easily and definably (ctrl-d?). It would be good to have a tray icon that shows very clearly, in different color, whether it's active or not.

Why #1. Most of fatigue from using the mouse comes from clicking. I used similar program and in my experience it did help a lot. It simply feels like it's two times easier to work.

Why #2. It makes you more conscious of how you work. You stop moving mouse aimlessly around. If you do, you get stung  At first it's a bit annoying but later on you find that it teaches you to discipline yourself to know what you want to do before doing it.

Why #3. It sometimes help to slow you down if you rush too much. You can control this effect by changing the autoclick delay. I've found that usually 0.3 sec works best for me, if I set it to .6 or .7, it feels a little slow for work but sometimes it has a relaxing effect, and this may be a good thing if you're not trying to meet a deadline..

Notes: There is a tiny freeware app that does just this, but it's unusable because it autoclicks even if you right-click somewhere. On top of that, there are no options or settings. I tried to find that program but search did not turn it up.. I've seen it about a year ago.

There is an autoclick in RSIGuart program. It's very useful and functional, but RSIGuard itself is $45, autoclick is only a tiny part of it and it does not let you temporarily suspend its action by holding a key. I'd probably buy it anyway but I'm a little short on money right now     The link to that feature on their site is:  www.rsiguard.net/help/helpac.htm