Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 13:28:14 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Michael J Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Enhancing Lib mouse buttons I'd like to mention a (Windows) program that enhances use of the Libretto's "outside" mouse buttons, and to ask for suggestions of programs that do this even better. The program I'm speaking of is "RemoteKeys" (available as freeware from nonags.com). It allows you to configure a "button bar", which can send keystrokes (or mouse movements) to another running application. Here's how I'm using it. I use "Street Altas" to navigate, and I make extensive use of its ability to speak directions. Doing so requires some amount of keyboard input and/or mouse movements, however, which could be dangerous if driving alone. Enter RemoteKeys. I've set up a button bar with a single user button, that sends (to Street Atlas) the keycodes alt-g-k-c (for "speak current directions") when left-clicked, and the keycodes alt-g-k-f (for "speak time/distance to finish") when right-clicked. I then move my mouse pointer over this button, and close the Libretto's lid. From then on, I can hear (through a "hands-free" cell phone earpiece) this information just by clicking the Libretto's (readily accessible) mouse buttons! Of course, these same ideas can be used on any application that you'd like to control with the Libretto's lid closed. As nice as this is, there are some drawbacks. 1) On my P75 Lib 50, CPUIdle indicates that RemoteKeys uses 15% of my CPU cycles. That seems high for a program that's just listening most of the time. 2) The only button options are single-left-click and single-right-click (i.e. no double-click or chord-click options exist), so with just the two mouse buttons you can program only 2 events. It'd be nice to have some more options. So ... does anyone know of a similar program without these drawbacks? Mike Miller ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------UNSUBSCRIBE------- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=cmd:unsubscribe --------UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Use above but add DIGEST to the subject line... **************************************************************
