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[Hotfoot]

I got the idea for this script from someone who wanted a boss/panic feature using only the mouse -- no mouse clicking or keys.

Moving the mouse to a corner of the screen triggers a command/s. Use modifier keys -- Alt, Shift, Control -- for additional commands. With modifier keys, commands are triggered when the modifier key is released.

This script is meant to be modified by the user for individual needs. I've included some examples of use. When using the script, make sure you watch your mouse placement to avoid accidentally triggering a Hot Corner. You might consider using a Hot Corner only with modifier keys if you frequently put your mouse near a corner during regular computer use.

Please post your comments or suggestions for improvement. Thanks.

[Dewi Morgan]

This is really nice :)

What I'd like is to be able to make the start menu (which I currently have set to "autohide") to only appear when I move to the bottom left corner, and a way for Trillian (an IM client) to pop up only when I go to the top left corner.

At the moment, they take up the whole bottom of the screen and the whole left of the screen respectively for their "hot zones". Which is rather irksome.

Can anyone think ofa way to do that?

[Edit: I'd forgotten I had asked this :) I'm coming across it a few days after I posted a thread where I answered my own question, thinking I had only just realised that AHK could solve this problem: now I find I knew it all along!]
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[faro]

thanx

[itallmylove]

Hello Hotfoot, thanks for your script but I don't know much about programming, and therefor i don't really understand the script you wrote. Can you or anyone else please edit the script for me? so if i move mouse to bottom right corner it run the screen saver ribbons.scr , move mouse to top left corner it show the desktop, move mouse to top right corner show the sidebar. All that without key pressed, just with mouse motion.
Thank you very much.

[ericisshort]

Does anyone know how you would modify this script to work with multiple monitors?

[Krogdor]

@ ericisshort:
This should work, but I haven't tried it. Please tell me if there's anything wrong with it.

[MonkeyBrains]

I use two monitors with different resolutions and this screws up some of the geometry I think. for example, the Xmax is the width of both monitors added together and the Ymax is the greater of the two heights, which means that either the left or right lower corner is not accessible depending on which monitor is the shorter of the two.

[ericisshort]

Sorry I forgot to reply to this earlier, but thanks krogdor for posting the edit. I am having the opposite problem as monkeybrains. If I go outside the boundaries of my first monitor on my second monitor, it calls the ahk script. I've illustrated the problem in the image below:


Monkeybrains, is your primary monitor larger than your second? If so, it looks to me as if the script is only taking the max and min from the y (or x if your monitors are side by side) from the two monitors while using the x (or y) max and min values from the primary monitor only.

I will look into fixing this over the weekend, but before I dive into it, can anyone more proficient in ahk tell me if this problem would be all that difficult to fix?

[hannaxbear]

Thanks so much for this! I love it! (:

[sunchess]

Guys, i think that thing with centering mouse cursor -- is really bad. Actually, I was even scared when my cursor jumps to center in my first try!

So, i want to get rid of this first. I remove those centerxcentery from script. But it begun to execute constanly, while mouse in corner. How to fix this? How to run command once when mouse in corner?

[Lewrex]

This tool is great. I've combined it with a taskbar toggler and given credit to Hotfoot here:

http://rocketdock.com/addon/docklets/26821

Thanks for the code. It works very well.

[Dinguz]

Is, LEFT,RIGHT,UP,DOWN possible...
as hotspots instead of just CORNERS?

8 directions = superior to 4 no?

If so please message me!

[Lewrex]

Do you mean an option to make any corner trigger the hider (or all if you want)?

My latest update to it has that. I've replaced the file on the RocketDock link.