Thread: Input tool using MouseWheel

This is awesome, I might have to add a wheel mouse to my carputer.

I'm soooooo glad it uses .NET

I just added a Windows Messaging interface upon Frodo's suggestion. So you may use other hardware than a wheel mouse (like... hmmm... I-Bus, or... hmm... phidgets?)

Details will follow...

As I metioned before, I've updated MouseWheelInput to provide the capability of using other hardware for input than a wheel mouse only. This is how it works:



All you need is the piece of software labled "Driver" to translate the input device commands into MWI commands. These are:

Code:

WM_WHEELBUTTONDOWN = WM_USER + 0
WM_WHEELBUTTONUP = WM_USER + 1
WM_WHEELSCROLL = WM_USER + 2
WM_ENTER = WM_USER + 3
WM_BACK = WM_USER + 4
WM_SWITCHMODE = WM_USER + 5

The only message that is transmitting a parameter is WM_WHEELSCROLL, which has to describe the scrolling direction in lParam:
>0 - scroll up
<0 - scroll down

Messages have to be sent using

Code:

SendMessage(handle, message, wParam, lParam)

Whereas the handle can be determined using

Code:

handle = FindWindow(null, "MouseWheelInput")

To enable this feature, set <UseMouseHook> to false in the configuration file.

A driver also may communicate via the FrodoComm interface. This can be accomplished by sending a specific notification (with PostMessageById or PostMessageByName) with:
FrodoCommMessageType : SET
FrodoCommMessageEventName: INPUT
FrodoCommMessageFormat: TEXT
The FrodoCommMessage can be one of these:

Code:

WHEELBUTTONDOWN
WHEELBUTTONUP
WHEELSCROLLUP
WHEELSCROLLDOWN
ENTER
BACK
SWITCHMODE

As you see also in the picture above, keystrokes can be sent to Windows or to FrodoComm (with a PostMessageBroadCast message).
To make it work with FrodoComm instead of Windows, set option <UseFrodoComm> to true in the configuration file.

You'll get then a FrodoCommMessageType Notify with FrodoCommMessageEventName KeyPress and a Xml message like this one:
<Key virtualKey="65">A</Key>


Enjoy playing around

Great Concept

Upon a improvident comment of Brave (), I've added a new feature that will collect all input and lookup for matching words in a dictionary.



If you're using a touch screen, this will improve the input a lot.

Since a dictionary is plain text, you can easily edit and expand it to adapt it to your needs.

To enable this feature, place the filename of the dictionary file within tag <Dictionary>. By default the list shows only 5 entries but you can alter this setting by setting <MaxDictionaryList> to any number.

LOL

it rocks

MWI now also supports task switching too:



Let's see, who's the first to figure out how it works