Re: Limiting mouse movement to specific axes - vertical, horizontal, or maybe diagonal

  • From: "Jacob Kruger" <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 20:56:50 +0200

Ok, maybe I'll actually test window eyes a bit more then, but the problem there 
might be that similar to jaws, it intercepts keyboard activity, so sometimes 
you wouldn't want it running as such, and I presume it also has a type of sleep 
mode, like jaws, but then it might not affect/manipulate mouse movement either.

Stay well

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rasmussen, Lloyd 
  To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 4:16 PM
  Subject: RE: Limiting mouse movement to specific axes - vertical, horizontal, 
or maybe diagonal


  Window-Eyes has a function for limiting mouse movement to vertical or 
horizontal directions.  I don't see it used very often by anyone, and people 
have probably forgotten that it exists.

   

  Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer

  National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

  Library of Congress   202-707-0535

  http://www.loc.gov/nls

  The preceding opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of the 
Library of Congress, NLS.

   

   

  From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jacob Kruger
  Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 1:39 AM
  To: Rasmussen, Lloyd; ProgrammingBlind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: Limiting mouse movement to specific axes - vertical, horizontal, or 
maybe diagonal

   

  I know this is a little off-topic, but just thinking that sometimes, in some 
types of situations, it might be useful/nice to use a physical mouse, but maybe 
limit the cursor movement to only vertical, horizontal, or diagonal axes, etc., 
and aside from handling mouse movement in certain specific apps, and then sort 
of correcting it, I was just wondering if there might be some utilities etc. 
out there to help you handle this easily enough, and, while I can make use of 
the jaws cursor to do this, and in fact made real use of drag and drop just the 
other day for the first time using the jaws cursor, this type of thing might 
also be nice to be able to use sometimes when jaws isn't active as such.

   

  Stay well


  Jacob Kruger
  Blind Biker
  Skype: BlindZA
  '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

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