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Hi, thanks for this great piece of program. Playing around with scripts and try to implement my workflow (currently with Displayfusion) into StrokesPlus :) Can it be evaluated in Global Actions\Mouse Events\Release - if there was no gesture has been detected? Background: I want to 'abuse' the stroke button for a default action (e.g. center window to middle of screen), if there was no gesture has been detected (while keeping the existing gestures). I know, that this can be done with easily with a gesture - but just click/release is much easier instead. Greetings.. Edited by user Sunday, December 5, 2021 12:37:43 PM(UTC)
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Hi, I'm no expert but here's what I think.. It might be technically possible with some tweaks/settings but that will most likely come with serious performance and usability issues, every time mouse button is clicked (which is many many times for a normal user), that action will be triggered which seems redundant. Here are my tips which might help: - If every button click is going to trigger that action and those clicks are most likely going to be at random intervals then its better to create a loop or a timer for that action at that point.
- If effort-to-draw-gesture is the issue then even a simple drag-mouse-down gesture or a rocker combination (click left then right mouse button in a flow or vice versa, see sample rocker script for details) will be better, two clicks instead of one.
I do not know which use case might end up needing a default or fallback action but most likely that will end up getting triggered more than required and depending on the action might hinder whatever the user is doing. Welcome to S+ community and congrats on having a usable Windows now
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I am using the X1/X2 Buttons for the primary/secondary strike buttons. I guess, that this will not lead to an performance issue - due I am not using the usual mouse buttons. As mentioned in another topic, the rocker thing helps here as well - with the capture modifier "either" - i can combine my strike with the right button etc. This is handsome and fast. Thanks!
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Glad to know, although the discussion is now split in two posts much like rockers I am curious about what kind of action needed to be performed so often Also just a personal taste thing, I've found using X1/X2 or other non-traditional buttons for gestures can be tricky. They can cause unusual stress on thumb or create usability issues when, lets say you are working on another machine with a traditional mouse. and if you think working without S+ will be manageable on other machines wait till you need to quickly copy and paste or switch applications on them If you're used to them then its best but I would personally recommend sticking to right mouse button when introducing S+ to new comers. Enjoy S+
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Quote:I am curious about what kind of action needed to be performed so often I am an efficiency freak. On a 43" 4k Monitor the most often performed thing is moving and resizing of application windows. Besides of moving the windows top bottom-left, bottom-right, upper-left etc. the most common thing is centering a window to the middle of the screen and resizing it. If I need to be focused to a web page for example, it helps if this windows stays in the middle of the screen with an appropriate size. The last years I used DisplayFusion and shortcuts for that. But I missed this feature with mouse-only. I am happy, that this can now done with StrokesPlus. Centering & Resizing can be done without script and with the steps easily. This one I am going to place to the double click rocker thing for example Code://this script divides the monitor screen into 4 areas
//it checks where the center of the focused window is currently located
//and resizes and moves it to the corresponding next area
// Split screen into 2 columns, 1 row (50/50 in the middle)
var screenRegions = sp.GetRegions(action.Window.Screen.WorkingArea, 2, 2);
// Get the column Rectangles of two columns and two rows
var leftColTop = Rectangle.Round(screenRegions.First(r => r.Column == 1 && r.Row == 1).Rect);
var rightColTop = Rectangle.Round(screenRegions.First(r => r.Column == 2 && r.Row == 1).Rect);
var leftColBottom = Rectangle.Round(screenRegions.First(r => r.Column == 1 && r.Row == 2).Rect);
var rightColBottom = Rectangle.Round(screenRegions.First(r => r.Column == 2 && r.Row == 2).Rect);
var appWnd = sp.ForegroundWindow();
var appRect = appWnd.Rectangle;
var appWidthCenter = appRect.X + Math.round(appRect.Width / 2);
var appHeightCenter = appRect.Y + Math.round(appRect.Height / 2);
var screenWidthCenter = Math.round(action.Window.Screen.Bounds.Width / 2);
var screenHeightCenter = Math.round(action.Window.Screen.Bounds.Height / 2);
switch (true) {
case (appWidthCenter <= screenWidthCenter && appHeightCenter < screenHeightCenter):
action.Window.Rectangle = rightColTop;
break;
case (appWidthCenter >= screenWidthCenter && appHeightCenter <= screenHeightCenter):
action.Window.Rectangle = rightColBottom;
break;
case (appWidthCenter >= screenWidthCenter && appHeightCenter >= screenHeightCenter):
action.Window.Rectangle = leftColBottom;
break;
case (appWidthCenter <= screenWidthCenter && appHeightCenter >= screenHeightCenter):
action.Window.Rectangle = leftColTop;
break;
}
Quote: I would personally recommend sticking to right mouse button when introducing S+ to new comers. You are right. Right button is more comfortable and better for the thumb than X1 or X2; but the right button is been used as well for drag & drop in windows or in some applications.
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Makes sense, especially since X1/X2 are not used anywhere else that often. Glad you got it working with S+ :)
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