Help beta test .9.7 "enhanced"

Hello Jeff,

12.14.2009
I have problems to change draw buttons on WinXP sp3. Can you please control this.

Whenever I try changing the draw button right mouse is still the draw button.
I made a clean install with multi user support.

Edit:
Today I find out that LButton_DOWN is not working anymore icon turns blue but nothing happens.

regards

Leo

PS: I miss

4BUTTON_UP {
}

4BUTTON_DOWN {
}

5BUTTON_UP {
}

5BUTTON_DOWN {
}

in strokes.bin. Are they working ? :)



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/18/2009 04:28AM by Leo.

There's a new build that should fix most of the problems people have been having with the "special gestures" (wheel/ button up/down) If you are still having trouble after the upgrade, reboot your computer. If it still doesn't work after the reboot, let me know.

Additionally, there is now support for 4/5 button up/down. You'll have to manually add the following lines to your strokes.bin file.

4BUTTON_UP {
}

4BUTTON_DOWN {
}

5BUTTON_UP {
}

5BUTTON_DOWN {
}

-- Jeff

Hello Jeff,

I can not change draw button at all. I made stroket.ini change draw button to middle but right button persist as draw button.

Perhaps I am the only one who have this :).

I can only test 4Button but it is working thank you.

Run Programm with only File explorer.exe is not working anymore. You have to add C:\Windows\explorer.exe in my case.


Edit: System is still WinXP sp3
Regards Leo



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/22/2009 09:06AM by Leo.

With latest I get LBUTTON again, and I also get MBUTTON, but I don't get any WHEEL gestures nor do I get 4/5BUTTON gestures. Perhaps Intellipoint isn't letting them through? (Microsoft wireless mouse)

WinXP sp3

Wheel, MButton, LButton, MButton, 4Button working

> I can not change draw button at all. I made
> stroket.ini change draw button to middle but right
> button persist as draw button.
>
> Perhaps I am the only one who have this :).

No, you're not alone. Mine does not work either.

> I can not change draw button at all. I made
> stroket.ini change draw button to middle but right
> button persist as draw button.

You shouldn't have to edit the settings by hand. Are you seeing 4 and 5 as options in the "Draw gestures by holding" dropdown box?

Have you rebooted since installing the new version? You may also want to try uninstalling the existing version, and possibly manually deleting the Program Files\TCB Networks\StrokeIt folder. Then reboot, then install the new version and see what happens.

-- Jeff

Do you mean there may be some files that should be overwritten by the installer but they are not?

I mean that there is one file in particular (mhook.dll) that is often in-use when doing an upgrade and therefor does not get updated by the installer until you have rebooted.

-- Jeff

jeff Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> > I can not change draw button at all. I made
> > stroket.ini change draw button to middle but
> right
> > button persist as draw button.
>
> You shouldn't have to edit the settings by hand.
> Are you seeing 4 and 5 as options in the "Draw
> gestures by holding" dropdown box?
>
> Have you rebooted since installing the new
> version? You may also want to try uninstalling the
> existing version, and possibly manually deleting
> the Program Files\TCB Networks\StrokeIt folder.
> Then reboot, then install the new version and see
> what happens.
>
> -- Jeff

Yes I see 4 and 5 as options but they do not work - changing this setting has no effect for me and hasn't for awhile (I first reported this back on November 16th). The current (12/23) build still has this problem. When I initially reported it, I too noted that I had MS Intellimouse installed, but I've seen this on other machines where I'm just using the stock OS drivers with no difference (with both Logitech and MS mice too). All my machines are running Win 7 x64 at this point, which could very well be the key point if you're not seeing this Jeff. ;)

It works for me with a MS Optical Intellimouse on XP32, XP64,Vista32, Vista64, and Win7 64 (all English versions, all clean installs with no additional mouse drivers or software) so I'm pretty confident that it *should* work for someone else, too.

I'm at a loss because I can't reproduce the error on any of my test machines. If anyone wants to try the following, it should produce a very clean install with all the default settings:

Uninstall any existing version of StrokeIt
Reboot
Delete Program Files\TCB Networks\StrokeIt
Install StrokeIt and uncheck the "Run now" option at the end
Create an empty strokeit.ini file in Program Files\TCB Networks\StrokeIt
Run StrokeIt
Test that you can draw gestures with the right mouse button
Open StrokeIt, go to Edit|Preferences
Change "Draw gestures by holding" from "Right Button" to 4
Click OK to close/save preferences
Test that you can draw gestures with the 4 button
Test that you can no longer draw gestures with the right mouse button

If that works for you, shutdown StrokeIt and delete the strokeit.ini file (to switch from portable mode back to normal mode) and restart StrokeIt. You will now be using your old settings.
Go back to Preferences and set "Draw gestures by holding" to "4" if it is not already set.
Make sure you can still draw gestures with the 4 button.

-- Jeff

First I want to say that changing "draw button" with personal (23.12.2009) edition is no problem.

Jeff I made everything as you describe but with no success.

I running uninstaller reboot. installed 23.10 reboot made strokeit.ini
start strokeit.exe change draw button to middle close everything nothing

Additional regsvr32 /u "C:\Programme\TCB Networks\StrokeIt\mhook.dll"
nothing

Edit: System is still WinXP sp3
I think that it has something to do with child_windows introduction.

Regards
Leo



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 12/23/2009 05:45PM by Leo.

A few more questions:

1) After you change the draw button to 4 and close the preferences window, does it "save"? If you open the preferences window, does it still show "4"?

2) With the draw button set to 4, does the right mouse button still draw gestures?

3) What happens if you set the draw button to "Middle"? Does the middle button work for drawing gestures?

-- Jeff

It's the same situation here. Draw button can be changed to every other button (LMB, RMB, 4, 5) but StrokeIt refuses to comply. Is saves the setting, when I reopen the preferences window I can see the correct settings but it leaves the RMB as the drawbutton, no matter which one I choose.

I was finally able to recreate the issue. There's a new build up that should fix everything. Make sure you're using the latest key from the site, too.

-- Jeff

impressive ! Thank you. I can change draw button ! Where on earth was the problem !?


Best regards

Leo

Hello Jeff,

Run Programm with only File explorer.exe is not working anymore. You have to add C:\Windows\explorer.exe in my case.


System is still WinXP sp3

Regards

Leo

Thanks, Leo. I've updated the preconfigured "Run Explorer" command in the defaults to use "%WINDIR%\explorer.exe" instead of "explorer.exe"

As far as the change in behavior goes, this is just a side effect of using CreateProcess instead of ShellExecuteEx to run programs. It was a necessary change that was made several months ago because ShellExecuteEx was causing some very difficult to debug crashes on many systems.

-- Jeff

I can't verify if this was ever possible but I can't assign "5BUTTON_UP" or "4BUTTON_UP" to anything. The "down" functions work fine, but if you wanted to perform 2 separate actions with 1 mouse click: ACTION1=DOWN, ACTION2=UP, it doesn't appear you could.

Hello B,

in WinXP sp3 works fine newest beta 27.

@Jeff I installed newest beta but explorer.exe only is not working I am sorry for this :).

Regards

Leo

explorer.exe will not work. You need to use %WINDIR%\explorer.exe

Hello Jeff,

Thanks for your reply please update your preconfigured actions.

Edit: Sorry you already update preconfigured actions.
Greetings Leo



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/28/2009 01:55PM by Leo.

@B

This was my testfile

class=Notepad
New Action {
   gesture = LBUTTON_DOWN
   New Command = keys, keys  "Key_down"
}
New Action {
   gesture = LBUTTON_UP
   New Command = keys, keys  "Key_up"
}

You have to hold Mousebutton for about one second.

@Leo

Thanks for posting the example. Your previous script was using the "Left Mouse Click" which works fine for me as well. The buttons that don't register the "UP" action for me are the 4 and 5 (back and forward) buttons. (Using Win7-32 btw) Can you confirm your example using:

class=Notepad
New Action {
   gesture = 5BUTTON_DOWN
   New Command = keys, keys  "Key_down"
}
New Action {
   gesture = 5BUTTON_UP
   New Command = keys, keys  "Key_up"
}

Hello B,

Thanks for the reply.
5Button_up and 5Button_down works here. WinXP sp3 beta 27.

Regards Leo

B,

Buttons 4 and 5 Up/Down work for me on Win7-64, too.

Are you running any other software that could be interfering with the mouse events?

-- Jeff

Jeff & Leo,

I figured it out. For possible future reference I'm using a Logitech MX Revolution and as soon as I closed setpoint, the "UP" actions registered correctly. Thanks. for your help

I confirm that, it's the same situation here. "Up" works correctly after closing SetPoint. It seems that SetPoint captures "Up" before StrokeIt does.