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Hi! Total newbie with a budding interest in AutoHotKey here. I got the hang of actually creating a script, converting to an executable from a script, and launching the .exe at startup. What I need is a detailed lesson on gesture-based triggers.

I have multitouch gestures enabled on my laptop's mousepad. I've set up two-finger clicks and swipes to my liking. As for three-finger swipes, a swipe left is my fourth button, and a swipe right is my fifth button command. So far, all this was programmed in Synaptics' control panel options, so I have no idea how to program the swipe motion in AHk.

What's left to program? Well, the main conceit is to, more or less, copy the OS X Expose four-finger swipe gestures. Synaptics software doesn't recognize three-finger swipes on the y-axis, but I set it to recognize the three-finger click as my middle click, so the gesture starts there.

I want to trigger Aero Shake with the downward three-finger swipe and trigger Alt+Tab or Win+Tab with the upward swipe. But the only reason I can't pull it off is because I don't understand many scripting commands yet. I assume MouseClickDrag factors into this, but I'm unsure. I would start with middle click, then deliberately swipe far up or down so I don't trigger anything with a twitchy click. I assume lifting my fingers off the pad would have to be written in so that the gesture obviously ends somewhere and the command is triggered. I'm thinking way too much into this. Please help!

Thanks for the forum!

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