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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Toggle mouse acceleration with a simple program

« Last post by nudone on April 30, 2010, 06:52 AM »

i've been playing about with the toggle function - works fine.

i'm just wondering (hoping) that maybe the app could be modified a little to provide a visual cue as to what mode the mouse speed/acceleration is in.

something blindly obvious like the cursor changing colour or shape depending on the mode.

e.g.
the mouse is acceleration ON = cursor is set to a blue cursor or a large cursor (or whatever).

the mouse is acceleration OFF = cursor is set to a white cursor or a standard/small cursor (or whatever).

maybe other cursors could be used for different speeds - maybe just a cursor with a tiny number next to it.

i'd be very happy to edit/design some cursors to include - if this is possible.

i'm just thinking that this visual cue would be extremely helpful (especially for me as i'll be swapping around the different modes and i'll forget what mode i'm in). having the cursor change appearance means it would also be instantly obvious what mode you are in, i.e. no need to look in the system tray for a mode change icon.

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General Software Discussion / Re: refresh all open browsers automatically?

« Last post by nudone on April 30, 2010, 06:43 AM »

i've been wondering about combining all of the autohotkey scripts into one single script - something i'll have to investigate later.

if you don't mind, maybe i'll try and modify the browser refresh script into a little tray app - just with a menu for selecting browsers or something. it would give me something to play with and learn autohotkey.

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Finished Programs / Re: Toggle mouse cursor speed or acceleration with hotkey

« Last post by nudone on April 30, 2010, 06:32 AM »

yes, that is perfect. i've not tried it with my mouse buttons to activate it (toggle) yet but it looks like it will do it.

it also does more than i could ever have hoped for - with the extra speed control. that opens up so many more levels or control. brilliant.

(i'll let mouser know - he might like this on his system too.)

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Toggle mouse acceleration with a simple program

« Last post by nudone on April 30, 2010, 06:30 AM »

fantastic util - does more than i could have hoped for.

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Finished Programs / SOLVED: Toggle mouse cursor speed or acceleration with hotkey

« Last post by nudone on April 30, 2010, 05:53 AM »

i thought i had a pretty decent mouse (logitech mx revolution) and i'm using the modified uberOptions for it - but it doesn't appear to do on the fly (toggling) of mouse speed or acceleration.

i'd really like to be able to press a hotkey (or mouse button that i'll associate with the hotkey) to toggle the speed of the mouse - but only whilst the hotkey is pressed (or maybe press the hotkey again to return to the alternate speed).

as usual, i've had a quick scan through the autohotkey forums and i can't decide if this is something near impossible or quite trivial. i know the cursor can be made to move by autohotkey - but toggling the systems mouse speed/acceleration - well, i really don't know.

anyone up for this snack challenge.

thanks.

(mouser has persuaded me that an accelerated cursor is a good idea to travel across multi-screen setups - but i need the non accelerated/slow cursor movement for design work, i.e. two toggling cursor speeds would be help me).

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General Software Discussion / Re: refresh all open browsers automatically?

« Last post by nudone on April 30, 2010, 05:29 AM »

excellent. it now appears to work (it got stuck a couple of times but i can't say why).

i've just changed the SendInput to F5 as Maxthon didn't want to respond (even after making sure that ctrl+R did work for it).

perhaps this should be included on Skwire Empire - i think it's a really helpful web development util. i still don't understand why there hasn't been something like this around for years.

i'll send some DC credits later - just waiting for them to go into my account first.

thanks very much for this, skwire.

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Finished Programs / Re: make mouse cursor "wrap" or "warp" to opposite screen edge (for multi screens)

« Last post by nudone on April 30, 2010, 04:17 AM »

thanks PhilB66. i'd already tried that one - you (or someone else might have mentioned it elsewhere on the forum).

it doesn't really provide the wrapping option - rather the opposite, in that it will momentarily pause the mouse when it touches the edge of the screen. the hotkey for jumping to another monitor isn't that helpful either.

at the moment MouseWrapper works the best for wrapping.

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General Software Discussion / Re: refresh all open browsers automatically?

« Last post by nudone on April 30, 2010, 04:02 AM »

Nope.  However, if you don't mind, I could re-write it so that each window is focused first and then dealt with.  Is this acceptable?

-skwire (April 30, 2010, 03:32 AM)

ooh, that's a good idea. please do.

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General Software Discussion / Re: refresh all open browsers automatically?

« Last post by nudone on April 30, 2010, 03:29 AM »

right. that's how i thought it was working - i'm trying to think of what could be stopping it.

i wondered if using multi-monitors would be a problem but it is refreshing IE on a 2nd screen and Chrome on the main screen - so no problem there.

would it make a difference if the process performed slower?

i've 3 other autohotkey scripts running at the same time - could these be challenging this browser refresh script in some way?

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Living Room / Re: Ergonomic mouse and keyboard

« Last post by nudone on April 29, 2010, 10:25 AM »

this is probably too simple a solution but it's something i encountered just this week...

i raised my office chair about 3 inches a few days ago - within an hour my wrists where aching (which they never do normally). i ignored this for a day or two and in the end decided to lower the chair again as it was just too painful on the wrists.

so, maybe, that's all that is required. my office table is actually a bit higher than my chair arm-wrests - which means my elbows are lower than my wrists when i'm sat at the computer.

other than that, i'd recommed any keyboard but keep it flat and use any mouse that has a very low front and a high back - thereby lifting your wrist slighty when you place your hand on it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: refresh all open browsers automatically?

« Last post by nudone on April 29, 2010, 10:17 AM »

thanks for giving it a shot, skwire but it doesn't seem to be refreshing more than a single browser at a time - i think it may have done two though.

i'm using vista so maybe that's the problem.

interestingly, Internet Explorer refreshes without being focussed - sometimes. the two that refreshed together were Chrome and IE.

Firefox doesn't appear to want to play and neither does Maxthon.

if this all sounds inexplicable then it might be best to leave it alone - if it's a vista thing then i'm sort of stuck.

oh, one other thing - does it matter if i have lots of non browser windows open at the same time? i should have mentioned that in the first place. sorry.

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General Software Discussion / refresh all open browsers automatically?

« Last post by nudone on April 29, 2010, 08:45 AM »

anyone know of a little util that will automatically refresh ALL browsers that are open?

when i say "automatically" i mean, by pressing a single key or button and then IE, FireFox, Safari, Chome, Opera, etc. refresh the page they are on (or the main tab that's selected).

this has got to be an old idea so there ought to be something out there - not that i can find anything.

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Finished Programs / Re: make mouse cursor "wrap" or "warp" to opposite screen edge (for multi screens)

« Last post by nudone on April 28, 2010, 12:06 PM »

heheh, very good.

as it seems this might be of use to others, here's my little script for sliding the mouse cursor about.

you can use the keyboard hotkeys (e.g. winkey + j to slide cursor down a screen) but i really set it up so that my programmable mouse could attach mouse buttons to the hotkeys (i've got about 13 buttons on the mouse).

the script is very basic - to the point that it won't work on your system unless you change the numbers around. but it might give you something to play with if you want to slide the mouse about.

just to put it into context:
my mouse scroll left/right buttons (on the scroll wheel) now make the cursor slide one screen across left or right.

my thumbscroll button, pushed up/down with my thumb, now makes the cursor slide up or down a screen.

(the sliding cursor function will also drag windows by their titlebar if you are holding them - which wasn't intentional but it's nice that it works like that.)

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Finished Programs / Re: make mouse cursor "wrap" or "warp" to opposite screen edge (for multi screens)

« Last post by nudone on April 28, 2010, 11:02 AM »

excellent finds, lanux128.

Cursor Navigator doesn't work correctly with multi-screens but MouseWrapper works perfectly - which i think is pretty amazing on my inverted T layout.

i'd tried searching for "autohotkey wrap cursor" using google but never found anything of much use - so i really appreciate what you've done.

(i'll send you some DC credits later.) thanks again.

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Finished Programs / Re: make mouse cursor "wrap" or "warp" to opposite screen edge (for multi screens)

« Last post by nudone on April 28, 2010, 09:11 AM »

thanks for the suggestions lanux128. unfortunately none of them work (not even with xp compatibility mode on).

Multi Mouse Monitor looks like it should work but as it requires keyboard or mouse buttons to activate that isn't of much use. i'm looking for a solution that just monitors the cursor and wraps it automatically. (this util didn't work with the hotkeys either.)

i'm thinking i'm going to have to delve into autohotkey to get the solution i need.


cranioscopical, i'm still using four screens but i've only got 3 in a row (the fourth is above the middle screen). so i was just hoping to wrap the cursor around the horizontal far edges. but it would be a bonus to wrap the middle screens in a vertical direction - out the top and up through the bottom, etc.

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Living Room / Re: Apple instigates Police Raid over lost/stolen iPhone 4G

« Last post by nudone on April 28, 2010, 06:40 AM »

oh well, looks like i now hate Apple even more than i did a few minutes ago too. i now have a new lifetime ambition - to see Apple vanish into obscurity before i die.

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Finished Programs / SOLVED: make mouse cursor "wrap" or "warp" to opposite screen edge (for multi screens)

« Last post by nudone on April 28, 2010, 03:03 AM »

i'd like to be able to wrap the mouse cursor around the edges of the screens i'm using, so:

that's 3 screens in a row.
cursor hits edge of far right screen then...
wraps arounnd (or jumps) to edge of far left screen.
(and in the opposite direction of travel.)

or, can anyone recommend a mouse util that will do this that will work with multi-monitor setups.

thanks.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Here we go again with false positive antivirus actions bricking computers

« Last post by nudone on April 26, 2010, 11:33 AM »

right, so that would be an AntiAntiVirus? or maybe an Anti²Virus?

i see a whole new industry dedicated to this threat 10 years from now. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: is there a util for "minimising" programs to the side of the screen?

« Last post by nudone on April 26, 2010, 07:48 AM »

look like ObjectDock Plus might be okay - the free version doesn't include the multi dock support though. not sure i wish to buy the plus version just to find it's not what i want.

the other docks fail in one way or another - so Nubs! still might be all there is. i'll try the free version of ObjectDock and see what happens...

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General Software Discussion / Re: is there a util for "minimising" programs to the side of the screen?

« Last post by nudone on April 26, 2010, 05:01 AM »

after a bit of testing using compatibility mode...

TaskBarEx doesn't appear to work at all - which is a shame, as i still think this would be the best solution as it provides the most choice of layout.

miniMIZE takes over all the taskbar buttons - so that's not very friendly. i can see it being good, though, if you don't want the standard taskbar and like to personalise/customise your system.

Nubs! works but it is a bit limited when using multi-screens as it will only use the far/outer edges of your screen layout - if it worked on each screen then this would be a near perfect solution.

so, i may try and use Nubs! for a while. i don't think it will provide me with enough to really help - but i could be wrong.

edit:
whoops. forgot to look at the dock solutions suggested by cmpn. i'll do that now.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« Last post by nudone on April 26, 2010, 04:14 AM »

excellent. the new DialogMove appears to be working perfectly. I've not used it for long but all dialog windows behave as expected so far.

thank you very much for this, jgpaiva. my machine feels 1000% friendlier already.

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General Software Discussion / Re: eBoostr, now version 4

« Last post by nudone on April 25, 2010, 05:01 AM »

worth a try - i'd be happy if speeds up the load time of my commonly used programs. i can't say i've noticed the built in ReadyBoost making much difference (it may have even slowed things down for me), though they sound like very similar cache managers.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: move small dialog windows to cursor position

« Last post by nudone on April 24, 2010, 04:04 PM »

(just pm'ed you, jgpaiva.)

i'll be giving this 2.0 version a great deal of testing when i get back to my multi-screen setup. i am so excited about this.

whilst i had a dual screen setup it didn't seem so crucial to have DialogMove working on both screens - but now i've gone to the multi-screen setup (4 screens), having DialogMove work on all screens is going to be absolutely fantastic - it really, really, is going to make a difference to my day.

thanks for spending time on this, jgpaiva.

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General Software Discussion / Re: is there a util for "minimising" programs to the side of the screen?

« Last post by nudone on April 24, 2010, 03:36 AM »

thanks for the extra suggestions. i'm not back at the main computer until monday so i'll try them then.

using compatiblity mode with miniMize is a good idea - i always seem to forget that option exists.

i had been using taskbarEx for years until i moved to Vista - maybe that will work under compatibility mode too. will try it.

i'll try out the othe docking solutions too.

will report back with what works (or doesn't).

thanks all.

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General Software Discussion / Re: is there a util for "minimising" programs to the side of the screen?

« Last post by nudone on April 23, 2010, 12:08 PM »

thanks for the suggestions but they don't quite solve the problem - not perfectly anyway.

switcher is okay but it's more of an alt+tab replacement.

thunbwin and nubs have their own problems (on my system, at least). nubs would have been good but it's inconsistent - windows tend to disappear off the screen, others are rolled up, just weird behaviour. thumbwin remains in the way too much, and the normal taskbar button are still visible for thumbed programs.

so, i'm still hoping and looking there could be something else.