I'm reading a webcomic I just stumbled over.
I'm using the arrow keys on my keyboard - you say you keep yours there also? - to scroll down through the panels, and when I reach the bottom the mouse cursor is lined up right where I left it on the previous page - over the [Next] click-spot thingy at the bottom of the page.
But I have to keep reaching over and clicking the mouse.
Can I please get a key to do this with?
"I only have half a key, I had to split it with the sound effects man"-- normzone, Jan 13 2011 Keyboard with integrated mouse http://pckeyboards....oo.net/en104wh.htmlbaked for years... [Spacecoyote, Jan 13 2011] The webcomic that started this idea... http://www.drivecom...archive/090815.html [normzone, Jan 14 2011] And this one is worth reading from the start if you're the target audience http://www.goblinscomic.com/You roleplayers know who I mean [normzone, Jan 14 2011] Dr. Eldritch http://askdreldritch.com/comic001.html [normzone, Jan 14 2011] Dr. McNinja http://drmcninja.com/ [normzone, Jan 14 2011] A Girl and Her Fed http://www.agirlandherfed.com/ [normzone, Jan 14 2011] Girl Genius http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php [normzone, Jan 14 2011] Freak Angels http://www.freakangels.com/?p=23 [normzone, Jan 14 2011] Oglaf http://www.oglaf.com/archive/ [normzone, Jan 14 2011] Scenes From A Multiverse http://amultiverse....yond-the-beanrizon/ [normzone, Jan 14 2011] Shi Long Pang - The Wandering Shaolin Monk http://www.shilongpang.com/?number=194 [normzone, Jan 14 2011] Slaughterhouse 90210 http://slaughterhouse90210.tumblr.com/ [normzone, Jan 14 2011] XKCD http://xkcd.com/ [normzone, Jan 14 2011] Questionable Content http://questionable...view.php?comic=1662 [normzone, Jan 14 2011] Something Positive http://www.somethingpositive.net/ [normzone, Jan 14 2011] Giant in the Playground http://www.giantitp...omics/oots0747.html [normzone, Jan 14 2011] (?) Templar, Arizona http://templaraz.com/?p=1552 [normzone, Jan 14 2011] SPQR Blues http://spqrblues.com/IV/?p=187 [normzone, Jan 14 2011] GlovePIE http://glovepie.org/glovepie.php [mitxela, Jan 16 2011] AutoPagerize http://autopagerize.net/ [mitxela, Jan 16 2011] If you're using Windows, there's a facility in Accessibility Options called "MouseKeys"... guess what it does ? ;D
[edit] You'll have to root around the 'net to find out exactly which key maps to what mouse event: oddly Micro$oft doesn't think it's important to say.-- FlyingToaster, Jan 13 2011 Link up those webcomics.-- rcarty, Jan 13 2011 [FlyingToaster], I have been using my on-screen keyboard so I can type with the mouse, which I get to through Programs/ ... /Accessibility. (Some days I am too butt-lazy to reach for the keyboard (from the depths of my comfy *reclining chair*)).
MouseKeys is new to me, and it took me a while to realize it was in Control Panel / Accessibility Options. It looks handy, and it is strange that they don't tell you what keys do what.
Thank you for letting me know about it.-- baconbrain, Jan 13 2011 It just seemed like one of those obvious things that should be around: first "draft" of my anno was "should be something free downloadable, look for 'keyboard mouse mapper' or something"... then I saw directions to M$ built in thing...
If you're feeling even butt-lazier, try out a trackball.
[coyote]s link is to modern Model M keyboards (they purchased rights offa IBM awhile ago); pretty good from what I understand.-- FlyingToaster, Jan 13 2011 // try out a trackball //
Yeah, I want one of those again, but the other users of this computer would get all mad and ... stop ... using .... Excuse me, gotta get to the store.-- baconbrain, Jan 13 2011 Thank you all. I'll have to research.
Does nobody, without Googling, recognize the "half a key" reference?-- normzone, Jan 14 2011 Spinal Tap ?-- FlyingToaster, Jan 14 2011 Actually it's Firesign Theatre, but you get credit for trying.
Okay, [rcarty], I linked the best ones. Damn, I've probably revealed more about my self now than in my entire 'bakery tenure.-- normzone, Jan 14 2011 [nornzone], thanks for the webcomics. I have been working up through Order of the Stick archives for the past week, enjoying Drive since it started, and an XKCD reader since I don't know when. I have high hopes for the new ones.
(Firesign Theatre? That's been a long time. (When I first learned I was going to Sumatra, the first thing I thought was "giant rat". (And then, "That's been a long time.")))-- baconbrain, Jan 14 2011 Are you left handed? I spent a considerable amount of time programming shortcuts so as to be able to execute them with my non-mouse hand. Please don't introduce some new complexity. I'm getting too old to keep up, I fear.-- Zimmy, Jan 14 2011 I'm a righty, but I mouse either - handed to reduce the wear and tear ergonomically, and I used to work with a guy who programmed his mouse lefty, so I swing both ways.-- normzone, Jan 14 2011 [Toby] have a play with GlovePIE. It's a 'programmable-input-emulator' originally meant for using a power glove to control the mouse, but has a huge amount of functionality for all kinds of things - what you're after would be easily doable once you get to grips with it.
[normz] you might want to look at AutoPager. It notices when there's a "next" button on a page and dynamically loads it onto the current page, I find it very useful (I use the greasemonkey version).-- mitxela, Jan 16 2011 I have a laptop, which obviously has a button on it for mouse clickery. I also have a 'media' PC that has a wireless keyboard, which has a trackpad and mouse buttons. Had I neither of these, I may want what you are proposing.-- marklar, Jan 16 2011 random, halfbakery