Here's how to use your mouse wheel as a task changer.

Attached is a file that will enable you to use your mouse wheel to toggle through tasks that are open on your computer. Before you install it, you want to make sure you remove any actions that you have already set for MOUSEWHEELUP and MOUSEWHEELDOWN.

Once you've done that, download the file, open strokeit, just click 'file/import config/ then select the task.sxp file that you downloaded. Now when you go to 'global actions' you should see two new entries for MOUSEWHEELUP and down.

How it works:

Hold in the button that you have assigned strokeit to activate your gesture drawing (default is right click) and while keep it held in scroll up. You should see the task changer appear, you can scroll through the tasks as you wish until you get to the one you want (gotta keep the button held in!), then use scroll wheel down to select that task.

Keep in mind you must have more than one task or window open in order for it to show that.

One other thing to note;

If you find that your mouse wheel isn't being recognized as a gesture, try uninstalling any mouse software you may have (microsoft intellipoint, logitech mouse software) or anything similar including programs that allow you to assign keystrokes as your extra mouse buttons.

Cool, thanks for sharing.

try also (if wheel not work) one gesture for [ALT_DOWN][TAB] and one for [ALT_UP]

nor make the first gestue as long as u have the task u wantet and then the other gesture ...

make this even cooler.

use "[ALT_DOWN][ESCAPE][ALT_UP]" for wheel up and
use "[ALT_DOWN][SHIFT_DOWN][ESCAPE][SHIFT_UP][ALT_UP]" for wheel down.
its not my idea (was in another thread).

Hi All,

I have a tablet and want to emulate the behavior of the middle mouse click...is there any way to do this with strokit? Thankyou?

dkp@u.arizona.edu

Nikil says:

use "[ALT_DOWN][ESCAPE][ALT_UP]" for wheel up and
use "[ALT_DOWN][SHIFT_DOWN][ESCAPE][SHIFT_UP][ALT_UP]" for wheel down.

It is cool.. and another little "trick" is to Add: [ENTER] to these comands, in that way minized windows will restore to see them

Best regards.

Where does the [ENTER] command go? thanks

This alt-tab scroll wheel control is very cool.

(The at-esc variation is less generally useful imo.)

Is there a way to have the selected window open 'automatically' with right mouse up? I suppose the end of the gesture (right mouse up) would have to activate 'alt up'.

The main advantage would be the direction of the scroll wheel could be used to reverse direction in the list. Also it would be easier to get the hang of.

Maxthon has a gesture for ctrl-tab that works like this.

I hold the same opinion as you Ed.
To counter that I have modified the assignments as follows:

WHEEL_UP - [ALT_DOWN][TAB]
WHEEL_DOWN - [ALT_DOWN][SHIFT_DOWN][TAB][SHIFT_UP]
LBUTTON_DOWN - [ALT_UP]

Modify them manually or download the attachment, but make sure that you have deleted your earlier mappings.

Not exactly the same as we wished, but very close.

Hope this helps!

Sandeep

Oops! Here is the file!

I cannot understand why it is not uploading the file :(
Here is the code

<VERSION>StrokeIt .9.4</VERSION>

<APP name="Default">
Task Select Cancel [LBUTTON_DOWN] {
gesture = LBUTTON_DOWN
Alt_Up = keys, keys [ALT_UP]
}
Task Select Next [WHEEL_UP] {
gesture = WHEEL_UP
Alt+Tab = keys, keys [ALT_DOWN][TAB]
}
Task Select Previous [WHEEL_DOWN] {
gesture = WHEEL_DOWN
Alt+Shift+Tab = keys, keys [ALT_DOWN][SHIFT_DOWN][TAB][SHIFT_UP]
}
</APP>

Save it in a file with an extension of .sxp and then do the import!

instead of wheel down we use lbutton down.
so it really doesn't help . The problem remains .... :(

Yeah, but the difference is that you can actually go back and forward to select your task.
Without this you are almost forced to switch your task (once you have invoked the "Task Switch" window).

Sandeep

foound something useful, no not the solution, but a nice utility if u completely depend on this
taskswitch:
[url=http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/TaskSwitchXP--alpha-Download-14732.html]http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/TaskSwitchXP--alpha-Download-14732.html[/url]

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Nikil says:

use "[ALT_DOWN][ESCAPE][ALT_UP]" for wheel up and
use "[ALT_DOWN][SHIFT_DOWN][ESCAPE][SHIFT_UP][ALT_UP]" for wheel down.

It is cool.. and another little "trick" is to Add: [ENTER] to these comands, in that way minized windows will restore to see them

Best regards.
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so where does the [ENTER] go???

It goes at the end. Just like this:

Wheel up:
[ALT_DOWN][ESCAPE][ALT_UP][ENTER]
Wheel down:
[ALT_DOWN][SHIFT_DOWN][ESCAPE][SHIFT_UP][ALT_UP][ENTER]

I like this from Sandeep (you can see ALT+TAB menu):
Wheel up:
[SHIFT_UP][ALT_DOWN][TAB]
Wheel down:
[ALT_DOWN][SHIFT_DOWN][TAB]
LeftButtonDown .. dont forget add SHIFT_UP:
[ALT_UP][SHIFT_UP]

asdf:

Thanks a lot! That is by far the easiest way to alt-tab on my dell laptop using a touch pad. I can scroll thru tasks using the right edge of the touch pad and then select the task by a single tap on the pad.

Where is teh download link??