Suggestions for improvements

[ethangoldstein]

Hello,

I'm a big fan of this piece of software and really appreciate the work you've done. It is very similar to GentleMouse, but does not have some of the associated problems with. I have some suggestions that I think would improve the usability of this piece of software.

1. Automatically detect the size and number of the monitors and adjust the edge calculating algorithm accordingly. I frequently use my laptop by itself or plug into my docking station where I have two large monitors. I imagine this is a common use case for other people as well.

2. Allow for each user to individually customize the location that the boxes appear in. Potentially a similar style to that of GentleMouse.

Thank you for uploading such a great project and I'm very interested to hear what you have to say about these suggestions.

[ProperCode]

Hi,

1. I plan to add multiple monitors detection in the future.

2. The squares locations were chosen to maximize the clicking speed while keeping the effort of clicking as low as possible. I don't think there're better positions for that. LMB and RMB holding sqaures are farther to the sides, because they're rarely used near the edges of the screen, so it shouldn't be a problem if they're not visible when the cursor is very close to the left or right edge.

GentleMouse solution has too many disadvantages.
Moving the cursor through a square to reach another square requires:

• either increasing Cursor time in square to register click which would slow down actions triggered by the squares that are closer to the cursor.
• or implementing new action registering method which would measure how long the cursor is not moving while being inside a square (instead of just measuring how long the cursor is located inside a square which is currently used).

In both cases clicking speed decreases.
There's also a problem of increased effort required to reach farther squares and the fact that GentleMouuse method requires more focus and precision from user (cursor has to enter the right square and stay in it long enough while my solution requires simply to move mouse in well-known direction to trigger an action so you can use it almost without looking).

Currently you can move the squares closer by decreasing their size (while making access to them harder). If you do that you should also decrease Cursor time in square to register click. Moving the squares farther away from the cursor is possible by increasing their size.