Hey all,
Hope this is the right place for this. Previous post got moved around a bit and I forgot where I posted it first. I did a donation code once before and it went pretty well!
Anyway- this is a fun one. Summary- Long ago, for the Apple Macintosh system 7, there was a simple little app that made the mouse cursor point in the direction you were moving it. Now I found this app very very neat and played with it all the time. Looking to recreate it for windows 10 (+).
I'm not sure if it's possible, of course. Depends on what Windows will let you do with the cursor.
How to describe the motion? It's actually kinda hard to describe or possibly visualize.
Take a piece of paper, ideally one you cut out into the shape of a cursor. Make it large, using maybe a half sheet or a full sheet of paper. Or at least just take half a sheet. Put it on some very smooth surface where you have a lot of room to move.
Take your finger, or the eraser side of a pencil and put it on the very tip of the arrow, or on the very edge of a corner of the paper. That corner is the tip of the arrow. Now move the arrow around your surface. See how the arrow 'follows' your movement? How it keeps turning to point in the direction you're moving? THAT'S all this cursor program did.
Another way to visualize it is to watch this video of the old video game Time Pilot. But imagine that the ship is actually moving, not the background, of course:
https://youtu.be/cNv0_wY5jp8That's as best as I can describe the mechanics- the force is applied at the very tip of the arrow, and the rest of the arrow body behaves like normal physics would.
I constantly found myself doing loops on my way to 'ok' buttons, or min/maxing windows, etc. It was honestly fun. And this was a long time ago so I was a lot younger then, lol....
Is this possible in Windows? Anything else like it? Anyone interested in coding it?
Thanks!
(Previous DC project was 'enfolder', by vic, found here:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=51554.msg446282#msg446282)