Arrow Action ------------ Short description ----------------- Arrow Action is a MS-Windows utility that position the mousearrow automatically at certain windows-objects during work with MS-Windows. Ecpecially usefull for lap-tops. Installation ------------ Download/copy/place Arrow Action files (look further down) to wherever you like. All the files must stay in the same directory. Works right away. No extra installation needed. Suggested storing directory: c:\arrowact Arrow Action does not touch other MS-Windows files (like ini-files etc...). Demo-version should be put in a directory on it's own. Demo-version deinstalls itself by deleting all files in the directory it is run from and removing the directory. Developer --------- A license can be obtained, for the amount of $10 + postage and int. money order, by contacting: Jarle Pettersen, Skullerudveien 57, 1188 OSLO, NORWAY. Internet: jarlep@powertech.no Fax: +47 22745059 Compuserve: 100420,474 License consist of full version, documentation, setup-program and an 'uninstaller' program. Feel free to copy, distribute and share this demo-program with new users. When distributing, the following files must stay together: - arrowact.exe - arrowact.ini - arrowacd.dll - winrmaut.drx - winrmdll.dll - readme.txt Longer description ------------------ When opening and closing dialogboxes, automatic cursor movement will take place if 'Move Mousearrow' is enabled. Cursor is then positioned according to the settings of 'Positiontype' and 'Returntype'. There exist 4 position types. 1 = First Pushbutton in dialogbox. 2 = First object with focus in dialogbox (editfield, listbox, pushbutton..). 3 = Centerposition in dialogbox. 4 = First object that is not a pushbutton. There exist 3 return types. 1 = No returnposition. 2 = On closing dialobox, return to previous position. 3 = Centerposition in returnwindow. It is also possible to get an idea on how much armmovement is done by activating 'Measurebox'. Measurebox is a small 'always on top' window that constantly shows armmovement that is done with the mouse. For this to work properly, correct Screensize has to be set. The field 'Arrow/Mouse quotient' is by default set to 0.100. This is a estimated value of the fraction between handmovement at the desk and arrow movement at the screen. Reserach suggest that it is only neccessary to move the hand at the table 1/10 of the actual movement at the screen. For the measurebox to show 'real' handmovement at the table, the field 'Arrow/Mouse quotient' should be set to 0.100. For the measurebox to show arrowmovement at the screen, the field should be set to 1.000. The user can himself experiment with this by setting a quotient of his own and that might reflect this relationship better. The numbers in the measurebox-window is: Total movement (Red. Sum of Yellow and Green). Actual movement (Yellow. What is actually measured) Saved movement (Green) Percentage (Saved armmovement (green) in percent of total movement (red).) The numbers always reflects the 'Measurement' field in 'International' in 'Control Panel'. When 'Feet', the numbers shows feet. When 'Meters', the number shows meters. The measurebox measuring can also be activated/deactiavted. The measuring can also be reset. 'Saved armmovement' (green) is measured by accumulating automatic cursormovement, set by postitiontype and returntype, by calculating the real movement (straight line) that the cursor moves on the screen, from the original position to the position the cursor is moved to. The saved armmovement is reflected in the Number outside the green color in the Measurebox window and in the percentage number. 'Actual movement' is measured by drawing the diagonal between two x,y-points at the screen that the mousedriver tells the system. Arrow Action then intercepts this information and calculates the distance. Known anomalies --------------- Arrow Action works when opening and closing dialogboxes. However. All dialogboxes, that looks like dialoboxes, is not really 'dialogboxes' in an internal way. In 'dialogboxes' like this, Arrow Action will at the moment, not work. Program description for Internet and BBS supervisors. ----------------------------------------------------- Arrow Action. Autom. mousearrow movement.