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mr_kent
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 5:55 pm   

ZEUS Feature Request: Mouse Gestures
 

I read the Zeus doc and tutorial yesterday. Last night at work, I couldn't stop thinking about what I had read. Amazing stuff!

Anyway, I've been thinking about starting my own web-based business and based on what I saw in the Zeus tutorial I believe I know exactly what I want to do.

Basically I'd like to combine a browser and an editor based template in one application and sell it. Brainstorming about what was needed, I originally thought about selecting information in the browser, right-click to a custom menu to send the capture to one of many areas of the template.

This morning I while surfing with the Opera browser, I suddenly realized user-definable mouse gestures would be much a quicker, more intuitive way to move this information.

Any chance Zeus might support this natively? I googled mouse gestures and it seems this can be accomplished with javascript, but I'm not sure how.

Some links:
http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/
http://www.bitesizeinc.net/index.php/gesture.html
http://www.codeproject.com/cpp/gestureapp.asp
http://www.visualirc.net/tech.php

Maybe Zeus is already too mature to easily add this?
Thanks for considering this anyway.
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Kjata
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 6:02 pm   
 
If not, it should not be difficult to code this yourself. All you need is to create event handlers for the MouseDown, MouseUp, and MouseMove events. The MouseDown event checks to see if the clicked button is the correct one (eg. right mouse button) and enables tracking of the mouse movements. The MouseMove event records mouse movements if tracking is enabled and the MouseUp event looks at the recorded movements (again if tracking was enabled) and decides if they represent a valid mouse gesture, then proceeds to do the necessary action and disable tracking.
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Zugg
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 7:06 pm   
 
Mouse gestures is definitely something that I want to implement for the public version.
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