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I would rather use a mouse with an extra button to do that . |
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You could probably do this with a Kensington mouse - they have all sorts of things you can tie together with mouse, click and keyboard combinations, as well as mouse jumping. |
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Or an elaborate multi-footpedal arrangement? |
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Mouse jumping?
When I was at secondary school, there was this craze for tiny skate-boards, of about key-fob size. The boys who bought in to this tried to develop their skilz by flipping them around and pulling off tricks which looked quite unimpressive to the uninitated. |
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I was hoping this idea would be related to that. |
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About a thousand computing-years ago, I used an HP 9816 workstation whose keyboard featured a flat wheel (a rotary pulse generator, also called the "knob") in the upper-left corner, just above the function-keys that could be used to motor the cursor around the text-mode screen. It was amazingly efficient. |
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Because the knob was flat, textured, and had a slight rim, it was easy to park a finger on top and spin it very fast either way, moving the cursor horizontally. With shift, it moved vertically. |
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The fact that there was no limit, as there is with a mouse or trackpad, meant that it only took a second or two to move from anywhere on the screen to anywhere else, without taking your hands from the keyboard. |
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See the link section above for a picture of this ancient beauty. |
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Go back to the joynipple between the GHB keys. It works like a charm on my Toshiba, with no overshoots like I get with touchpads. |
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Better yet, include two small knobs on the corners of the keyboard, and manuever the mouse a la Etch-a-Sketch! |
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Why not set it up so that the presence of two fingers on the pad would accelerate the movement? |
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