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Hello,

I have written my own version of a mouse gesture script. I have read thru and briefly tried deguix's Mouse Gestures and
Jason's version of nanasisan's (whose identification and naming method is very cool). In fact it was deguix's that proved the reference for mine.

I mostly use my gestures for navigating Windows Explorer in the same way as Opera's gestures (which Wikipedia says it had since April 2001!) and I can't live without them now. My friend says about the same thing

Well, though I think my script has a little better recognition than the other scripts (recognizing a squared 'S' isn't too hard), when trying to distinguish between a 'squared S' and an 'angled S' at the best tolerances, there were difficulties.

I think the algorithm and tolerancing have the same inherent weaknesses as the other scripts.

I'd like to hear about other people's experience with mouse gesture scripts:
Are the gestures recognized easily?
With right angles alone you can define around a dozen; Does anyone use more than a dozen commands?
*Would* anyone make use of more than a dozen commands?
With good recognition you might even be able to do simple handwriting recognition (not cursive, and restricting the set to numbers would be better). Could anyone make use of that?

The reason is that there are other ways to recognize a gesture. Better ways it seems. Anyone interested in my writing an attempt?

Thanks for any comments

p.s. Keeping in mind what was said above, aspects of my script:
Gesture definition is similar to deguix's
Gesture algorithm is improved
Gestures are active on an explicitly inclusive basis: specific gestures for specific apps must be included in the definitions and code.
I chose to avoid allowing gestures to function all the time to reduce interference.

Thanks for sharing your experience with mouse gestures. There is a tentative plan to add built-in support for gestures in a future version of AutoHotkey. Posts like yours will be valuable when the time comes.

You could try Sensiva 2.5 ( freeware, (c) Sensiva, Inc., 2000 - www.sensiva.com) - probably the best mouse-gestures program I have ever tried.

Version 2.5 can be downloaded here:
http://www.tabletywacom.pl/drivers/file ... en251s.exe

I use the freeware app named

'strokeit'

for mouse gestures

It works quite well with ahk.

I like the colored 'gesture trail' that is displays, very handy for improving your gestures.



http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/shots.shtml

http://www.download.com/StrokeIt/3000-2094_4-10514527.html

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Sorry about deleting your post (I accidentally pressed Edit instead of Quote ). Feel free to repost it if you still have it.

Probably closer to 1 year because I don't have much experience with mouse gestures. Plus I don't think it would be used as often has hotkeys and hotstrings.

Deleted. ROTFLOL. no problem

Don't still have it but I was interested to really know in what way people actually use gestures; so here it is again but more to the point:

I knew of Strokeit before but had a brief look at it again and Sensiva too. They seem very advanced and comprehensive which is cool but ....

I cannot live without my gestures for navigating Windows Explorer but I still only use about 7 or so. At that quantity, my script can tolerance to allow it to work pretty well I think (up to about 16 2 stroke right angle only gestures).

If simple gestures are ok and if, like the algorithms from deguix and nanasian, treating "400px left then 50 down" the same as "50 left then 50 down" is ok and if having simple right angle strokes is ok, then I think the gesture scripts available are fine.

But, if you think that perhaps drawing an 'e' (like strokeit/sensiva) is a better way to run email, or if you want 40 gestures, or if you want to use curves or more similar gestures then I think none of the gesture algorithms I have seen offered in scripts, including my own, are capable. That is why several people have noted they needed to 'learn' how to draw the more complex gestures.

So I am curious which of the two approaches people would like, would use, or both?

The first is basically done, the second needs a solid algorithm not yet written in AHK (tho after some reading, but still with the optimism of ignorance, it looks like it might not be too much work to get something workable running).

Thanks again for the comments so far.

btw:
jamestr - you said "It works quite well with ahk." ... you have them working with each other or something?? like a gesture triggering an AHK script?

Can you also read my version of mouse gesture and mix the features