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The mouse gesture for "back" in Opera – the user holds down the right mouse button, moves the mouse left, and releases the right mouse button.

In computing, a mouse gesture is a way of combining computer mouse movements and clicks which the software recognizes as a specific command. Mouse gestures can provide quick access to common functions of a program. They can also be useful for people who have difficulties typing on a keyboard. For example, in a web browser, the user could navigate to the previously viewed page by pressing the right mouse button, moving the mouse briefly to the left, then releasing the button. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by the Norwegian Opera Software company. ... For the formal concept of computation, see computation. ... Operating a mechanical 1: Pulling the mouse turns the ball. ... Look up click in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Computer software (or simply software) refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of a computer for some purpose. ... A 104-key PC US English QWERTY keyboard layout The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard layout A standard Hebrew keyboard showing both Hebrew and QWERTY. A computer keyboard is a peripheral partially modelled after the typewriter keyboard. ... An example of a Web browser (Mozilla Firefox) A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. ...

History

The first mouse gesture, the "drag," was introduced by Apple to replace a dedicated "move" button on mouses shipped with its Macintosh and Lisa computers. Dragging involves holding down a mouse button while moving the mouse; the software interprets this as an action distinct from separate clicking and moving behaviors. Although this behavior has been adopted in a huge variety of software packages, few other gestures have been as successful. Apple Inc. ...

Current use

As of 2005, most programs do not support gestures other than the drag operation. Each program that recognizes mouse gestures does so in its own way, sometimes allowing for very short mouse movement distances to be recognized as gestures, and sometimes requiring very precise emulation of a certain movement pattern (e.g. circle). Some implementations allow users to customize these factors. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Some video games have used mouse gestures. For example, in the Myth real-time tactics series, originally created by Bungie Software, players use them to order battlefield units to move in a desired direction. Another game using mouse gestures is Lionhead's Black & White. The game Arx Fatalis uses mouse gestures for drawing runes in the air to cast spells. The demo video suggests that some of Nintendo's Wii games will take advantage of such a system. "Okami" for the Playstation 2 system uses a system similar to mouse gestures; when the player enters a certain mode, they can hold a face button and move the analog stick to create a shape (circle, half-circle, line, etc) that performs a function such as creating a bomb, or changing from night to day. Computer and video games redirects here. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into articles entitled Myth: The Fallen Lords, Myth II: Soulblighter, Myth III: The Wolf Age and Myth series. ... A destroyer patrols local space around its attached carrier in Nexus: The Jupiter Incident. ... Lionhead Studios is a computer game development company led by industry veteran Peter Molyneux. ... Black & White is a computer game developed by Lionhead Studios and published by Electronic Arts. ... Arx Fatalis is a first person role-player video game for the Xbox and PC, released in November 2002 by Arkane Studios, a video game developer based in Lyon, France. ... For the video game system, see Nintendo Entertainment System. ... The Wii (pronounced as the pronoun we, IPA: ) is the fifth home video game console released by Nintendo. ... Ōkami (大神 in Japanese) is a cel-shaded video game developed by Clover Studio that will be coming coming for the PS2 sometime in late 2005 or 2006. ... PS2 redirects here. ...

The Opera web browser has recognized mouse gestures since version 5.10 (April 2001). Several mouse gesture extensions are also available for the Mozilla Firefox browser, such as the Optimoz Mouse Gestures extension that offer also Rocker gestures performed by pressing one mouse button while holding down the other (this offers two additional commands, usually moving forward/backward). These extensions use almost identical gestures as Opera. Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by the Norwegian Opera Software company. ... Firefox redirects here. ... Mozilla Firefox showing several extensions and a custom theme See also: List of Firefox extensions Extensions are installable enhancements to the Mozilla Firefox or Mozilla web browsers, and add features to the application or allow existing features to be modified. ...

Some tools provide mouse gestures support in any application, such as gMote, Sensiva, StrokeIt and Mojo Gesture for Microsoft Windows. KDE includes universal mouse gesture support since version 3.2. Windows redirects here. ... For the NYSE stock ticker symbol KDE, see 4Kids Entertainment. ...

With the Advent of Multi-Touch (brought into the mainstream by Apple Inc. with its iPhone), Many of Apple Inc.'s products support Multi-Touch gestures]]. The iPhone and iPod Touch sport identical gestures, as do the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. The standard MacBook has identical Gesture support to the other MacBooks, but only allows for a maximum of 2 fingers to be used in any one gesture. Multi-touch is a human-computer interaction technique and the hardware devices that implement it. ... Apple Inc. ... For the Internet appliance line, see Linksys iPhone. ... Apple Inc. ... Multi-touch is a human-computer interaction technique and the hardware devices that implement it. ... For the Internet appliance line, see Linksys iPhone. ... The iPod touch is a portable media player designed and marketed by Apple Inc. ... The MacBook Pro is a line of Macintosh portable computers by Apple Inc. ... This article is about the Apple computer called MacBook. For the MacBook family as a whole, see MacBook family. ... For gestures in computing, see mouse gesture. ...

RealWorld Icon Editor can recognize 26 mouse gestures while images are being modified in its raster editor and it then performs either standard or custom actions. The action can by an execution of an image filter, change of the active drawing tool, or commands like Apply, Undo, Redo, etc. RealWorld Icon Editor is a software application combining functionality of an icon editor with a simple 3D graphics editor. ... A screenshot from the KDE raster graphics editor KolourPaint A screenshot from the GIMP raster graphics editor A raster graphics editor is a computer program that allows users to paint and edit pictures interactively on the computer screen and save them in one of many popular bitmap or raster formats...

Drawbacks

A major drawback of current gesture interaction solutions is the lack of support for two necessary user interface design principles, feedback and visibility. Feedback notification is required to indicate whether the gesture has been entered correctly by indicating the gesture recognized and the corresponding command activated, although Sensiva does approach this to some extent in providing voice notification. Mojo Sidekick provides an alternative solution with a pop-up click-through notification. The other principal is visibility of gestures, providing the user some means of learning the necessary gestures and the contexts they can be used in. Mojo gesture does this to some extent by providing pop-up cheat-sheets, that show a list of gestures, when the mouse pointer is held down. Both Mouse Gestures for Internet Explorer and ALToolbar Mouse Gestures display colored tracers that indicate the current motion that the user is taking to facilitate visual clues for the user.

One limitation with gesture interaction is the scope context in which the gestures can be used. For example each gesture has only one corresponding command for each application window. Mojo gesture has an interesting solution to this, which addresses this to some extent, by using floating click-through controls called charms, which allow an additional gesture context for each Charm control, however floating controls are not for everyone.

Note that holding down buttons while moving the mouse can be awkward and requires some practice, since the downwards action increases friction for the horizontal motion. An optical mouse would be less susceptible to changes in behavior than a ball mouse with increased friction because the sensor does not rely on mechanical contact to sense movement; a touchpad provides no added friction with all its buttons held down with a thumb. However, it was also argued that muscular tension resulting from holding down buttons could be exploited in user interface design as it gives constant feedback that the user is in a temporary state, or mode (Buxton, 1995). This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... In computer software, a mode is distinct method of operation within a computer program, in which the same user input can produce different results depending of the state of the computer. ...

Software

These applications add gestures to any software running on system:

Windows

• Gesture Magic (free/open source)
• Brass via Mime plugin (shareware)
• gMote (freeware)
• MauSuji
• Mojo Sidekick (shareware)
• StrokeIt (free for non-profit use)
• PowerPro (Freeware - Has a gesture plugin)

Mac OS X

• CocoaGestures
• FlyGesture, a freeware application
• Mojo Sidekick
• Quicksilver has a feature for recognizing mouse gestures
• Sapiens
• xGestures

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X11

• Freehand Gestures for KDE
• Configuring native strokes in FVWM
• KHotkeys provides native gestures support in KDE
• wayV
• xgestures
• xstroke

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SkyOS

• SkyOS Mouse Gestures SkyOS has native support of mouse gestures

Applications

These apps support gestures on their own:

• Documentation of mouse gestures in Maxthon.
• Documentation of mouse gestures in Opera.
• Mouse Gestures for Internet Explorer
• Mouse Gestures for Internet Explorer 7 by IE7pro
• Mouse Gestures in ALToolbar for Internet Explorer.
• OptiMoz, All-in-One Mouse Gestures and easyGestures add mouse gesture and/or pie menu support to Mozilla Firefox. [These are rather old links]
• Reference of gestures in Motion.
• Mouse gestures in raster editor of applications based on RealWorld Designer framework.

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Software libraries

• iGesture Open Source Java framework for pen and mouse-based gesture recognition.
• Java Swing Mouse Gestures Open source pure Java library for recognition and processing mouse gestures.
• Lipi Toolkit Open source toolkit that supports recognition of arbitrary pen and mouse-based gestures as well as handwritten characters.
• LibStroke is a stroke translation library in C/Java
• Mouse Gestures for .NET Open source .NET component for mouse gestures recognition

See also

• Computer accessibility
• Drag-and-drop
• Pie menu

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References

• Buxton, W. A. (1995). "Chunking and phrasing and the design of human-computer dialogues" in Human-Computer interaction: Toward the Year 2000, R. M. Baecker, J. Grudin, W. A. Buxton, and S. Greenberg, Eds. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 494-499.

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