mrcarlosrendon / binarysearchmouseemulator

A Windows mouse emulator that uses the keyboard and binary search for efficiency

BinarySearchMouseEmulator

A Windows mouse emulator that uses the keyboard and binary search for efficiency.

Controls:

Press F12 to toggle keyboard controlled mouse mode.

NOTE: Windows will not respond to your keyboard presses when this is active

Press Home to center the mouse cursor on your screen

Use arrow keys to control the mouse. If you get stuck just press Home again.

The way to get where you want is to always press the arrow key in the direction you need the mouse to move to get where you want to go. The mouse may overshoot, this is okay, now you just press the arrow key in the opposite direction until you arrive or you overshoot again. Notice that the distance the cursor moves is halved each move along the same axis. This binary search allows for rapid and precise movement of the mouse using the keyboard.

Press Caps Lock to left-click.

NOTE: To allow for easily click and drag, left-click stays clicked until you press Caps Lock again. Unfortunately this means double-click is four fast presses of Caps Lock.

Press Scroll Lock to right-click.

NOTE: see left-click NOTE.

NOTE: On Windows 7 and above this application stops functioning when a system control comes up, such as UAC or Task manager. This is a Windows security feature. I believe signing the application with a valid certificate gets around this, but I don't care enough to buy a certificate.

Build instructions:

Use Visual Studio if you don't trust the posted .exe. It is a keyboard hook after-all.

binarysearchmouseemulator's Issues

No mouse scroll emulation

I suggest that PgUp and PgDown do this when emulation mode is enabled

Mouse not available for Programs run as Administrator

Mouse not available in Programs run as Administrator

Perhaps you can create a self-signed cert and instructions for installing on the user's machine?

No explanatory screencast

It turns out to be quite difficult to explain what this is without a demo.
Create a screencast demo. Ideally as a gif, but a youtube works too.

Notification Area Icon Dies when moused over

Deactivating F12 click calls hook chain instead of being ignored

This is quite annoying in Chrome since it opens up the dev tools

executable is missing visual c redistributible dll

Keys are not configurable without re-compile

Simple configuration file in user's home directory???

No Visual Feedback

Suggest creating a status icon like those that exist for track pads that shows the current state of the virtual mouse.

Also consider visual feedback when performing the binary search (if possible).