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« on: April 21, 2008, 05:08:03 AM »

The only thing I'm not satisfied with model 02 is: the left and right mouse buttons are too far away from the pointer. While this is great for two hands operation, it is a big hassle for one hand browsing.

So, I made a little program to deal with this issue. This program was actually made 10 years ago for my Libretto. I just made some changes to fit the needs of OQO.

It runs on the system tray. "4" as the left button and "7" as the right button. It comes with the following features:

The tray icon appears in 3 colors: green - enabled, blue - paused and red - disabled. So you can easily check its status and won't mess up on your keyboard and mouse.

If you click on the tray icon, it'll pause its function and release these two number keys for normal typing.

You can also pause it by double press on the ESC key, very handy.

If you double click on the icon, you can disable or re-enable the function.

You can also right-click on the icon to see a menu, then you can select to pause, disable, enable and exit it.

If you press and hold down "4" (emulated as left button) for about 1 second, it'll stick and then you can release it and drag the mouse pointer like the left button is pressed. This is very another very handy thing for easy selecting text and drag & drop.

The program uses very little memory (only 2 MB) and has almost no impact to your OQO's performance, while offering all above cool features. The two files are extremely small - only 9KB total. This is because I used some very unique programming skills to handle such very difficult system-level functions. If the same skills are used to program the oqomanager,  we'll have the perfect OQO.

Just download the ZIP file and unzip the two small files in any folder. This program does not write anything to your computer including registry:

http://www.fixup.net/download/XinMouseOqo.zip

Declaimer: you are not allowed to sell or distribute this software without the permission from the author.
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« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2008, 07:47:33 AM »

This is one of the coolest programs.  I have wanted to be able to sit and drink coffee and and browse at the same time for such a long time.  Thank you for such a cool little utility.
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« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2008, 08:01:21 AM »

Wow! That's great Fix-up.

Thanks heaps for sharing - it's really cool.

Stu  Smiley
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« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2008, 09:01:19 AM »

Not working for me Huh
The tray status works (Green/Blue/Red icons) but no response with "4" & "7" keys, I'm running Vista. Any ideas?
Thanks for sharing the program.

Frank
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« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2008, 09:18:43 AM »

Not working for me Huh
The tray status works (Green/Blue/Red icons) but no response with "4" & "7" keys, I'm running Vista. Any ideas?
Thanks for sharing the program.

Frank

If you right-click on the icon in the task bar and choose enable does that make a difference? Also, did you extract the files before opening the app?

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« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2008, 10:19:20 AM »

This one swapped 4 and 7, i.e. 4 - right btn and 7 - left btn:

http://www.fixup.net/download/XinMouseOqoR.zip
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« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2008, 01:21:21 PM »

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If you right-click on the icon in the task bar and choose enable does that make a difference? Also, did you extract the files before opening the app?

Stu 

Right-click on the icon didn't make a differnce.

Yes, files were extracted.

Frank
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« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2008, 01:30:06 PM »

Someone else wrote a similar program for the OQO that uses the ; and ' keys instead. i find that key choice easier to use with one hand.

http://www.oqotalk.com/index.php/topic,1242.0.html

it also has the ability to use the shift+key of a key that is double-tapped to help speed up typing.

-melissa
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« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2008, 07:12:20 PM »

I chose 4 and 7 because they are used far less than ; and '.

I'm working on V1.1 and adding support for Vista. 1.1V is for Vista, but I have not tested it.

http://www.fixup.net/download/xinmouseoqo1.1.zip
http://www.fixup.net/download/xinmouseoqo1.1v.zip
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« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2008, 07:36:33 PM »

I don't think this thread belongs to here, because it is about a hardware issue and a workaround, not about software or OS.
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« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2008, 07:55:34 PM »

I actually don't mind the buttons where they are. I can use both hands to actuate mouse functions. I can lasso and click things quicker when using both hands. Is there something I'm missing about having the buttons closer to the roller and having to stop roller action to select buttons? Good to have the option for this feature anyhow. Thanks.  Cool

P.S. I would also prefer to use 2 hands while in keyboard mode so I don't drop my precious! Cheers.
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« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2008, 09:03:35 PM »

V1.2, uses 4 - L btn and 1 - R btn.

http://www.fixup.net/download/XinMouseOqo1.2.zip
http://www.fixup.net/download/XinMouseOqo1.2v.zip
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« Reply #12 on: April 22, 2008, 07:34:15 AM »

The links for Vista versions are not working for both 1.1v & 1.2v.

Frank
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« Reply #13 on: April 22, 2008, 08:40:06 AM »

There was a 4 at the end of the link, fixed that. Earlier versions are removed, to avoid confusion.
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« Reply #14 on: April 22, 2008, 01:38:47 PM »

1.2v still not working in Vista.
Also, the tray icon doesn'y change to Red on disable.

Frank
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