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joz:
As for using a combination of mouse clicks to toggle Circle Dock, I don't think it would be feasible to implement because you would then have a delay in all the mouse clicks you make as the program waits for a second click or no click. I've tried this thing before and I've found it to be annoying.

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What about creating a backgroundworker (I believe that's a thread helper class in dotNET) for listening for the events of mouse clicks?
That would get the annoying bit out of the way, at least that's what I think from my experience with threads and J2ME. It might be a challenge, but hey, who doesn't like one ;)

I'd like this feature... I use firefox to close tabs with middle mouse all the time so I turned that default setting off immediatly :)

VideoInPicture:
What about creating a backgroundworker (I believe that's a thread helper class in dotNET) for listening for the events of mouse clicks?
That would get the annoying bit out of the way, at least that's what I think from my experience with threads and J2ME. It might be a challenge, but hey, who doesn't like one ;)

I'd like this feature... I use firefox to close tabs with middle mouse all the time so I turned that default setting off immediatly :)
-joz (September 12, 2008, 02:43 PM)
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Check out this AutoHotkey program that will allow you to use a left and right mouse click combo to toggle Circle Dock: https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=14897.0

Do you have a mouse-click example program? (In Java or C#)

joz:
well no :)

I'm still just a student and my studies is mostly focused on the internet (or well, all "new" media)...

For my graduation I created a platform for applications on J2ME (Java 2 Mobile Edition), this is a showcase example (launched as beta for european championship). Apps that run on java phones.
You kinda need to program in threads to not block all incoming calls etc.

Dunno how experienced you are with programming and especially threading but this J2ME based article helped me start off with threading issues.
http://developers.sun.com/mobility/midp/articles/threading2/

It covers alot of important threading issues and way of thinking. Might wanna read it if you have the time. If you want me to, I could post some threading code written on J2ME but most of it deals with network and text-ticker related things

Thanks for the program btw. works fine!

VideoInPicture:
The threading to capture the mouse clicks isn't an issue but you would need a time delay for the user to press the left and right mouse buttons. Otherwise, when the user first presses the left mouse button, we do not know if this click is intended for another program or if it is part of a left-right mouse click combination. Therefore, we have to hook the mouse so that we can introduce a waiting period after every click. If after the waiting period we do not receive another click, we would send that click off to the intended application. If we get another click within the time period, we know to toggle Circle Dock.

The problem is that this waiting time period greatly impacts the usability of clicking normally with the mouse.

gr33nf4c3:
I have most of the code to put a task manager into Circle Dock but haven't had the time to do it yet.
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Bam! You, sir, would be my very personal hero if you did that!!  :Thmbsup:

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