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berlihingen  
#1 Posted : Sunday, June 19, 2022 8:16:19 AM(UTC)
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I tried and I failed (not a coder after all) so would appreciate any help.
The idea is: a common gesture (right to left) that emulates the BACK button changes this to the BACKSPACE when gets cursor state "blinking text cursor" (or whatever name it is) and then goes back to the BACK for any other cursor state (including "unknown").
Is it even possible? Thanks.
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Rob  
#2 Posted : Monday, June 20, 2022 3:26:39 PM(UTC)
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So this works for me, however note that this only works if the mouse cursor is the IBeam style - which usually means the mouse cursor needs to be over the text/typing area and visible (I can't remember, but I think I may have my mouse cursor set to not hide when typing).
Code:
if(sp.GetCurrentMouseCursor() == "IBeam") {
    sp.SendVKey(vk.BACK);
} else {
    sp.SendVKey(vk.BROWSER_BACK);
}

Unfortunately, in web browsers (and a lot of apps), S+ can't determine if you're in an active text input field (blinking input cursor [caret]) - at least, not that I'm aware of.

This will allow you to test if the standard Windows API is able to get the location of the caret (keyboard cursor) and log it to the S+ Console User tab - but it only works on native Windows input controls, which many apps these days do not use:
Code:
var cp = sp.GetCaretLocation();
if(cp) {
    StrokesPlus.Console.Log(`Caret Location (X,Y): ${cp.X},${cp.Y}`);
} else {
    StrokesPlus.Console.Log("No caret location found");
}
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berlihingen  
#3 Posted : Monday, June 20, 2022 4:36:02 PM(UTC)
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For now, I checked places where I wanted this functionality (OneNote app; online translation sites in Edge and Waterfox browsers), and this works perfectly. Thank you very much!
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