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Show HN: MouseTray – on-the-fly speed adjustment for any old office mouse

2 pointsby EsportToysalmost 3 years ago
Another one of my little AutoIt utility, decided to polish it up into a more presentable form.<p>I frequently use MSPaint when brainstorming or deriving equations, and had become quite proficient at handwriting using the mouse. I reduce the mouse speed whenever I need to make small-ish annotations without zooming in, then switch back to normal settings for interacting with GUI.<p>Many fancy mice have &quot;on-the-fly&quot; adjustments shortcuts that only works with their proprietary driver, and only for their specific devices. If I&#x27;m at a workstation with a generic office mouse then it&#x27;s very cumbersome to constantly go back and forth between Control Panel and the application when switching between drawing and navigation.<p>So I wrote this little &quot;Volume Control&quot;-esq tray app to make it so that I could just hold down CapsLock and move the scrollwheel to adjust the mouse speed, and click the middle button to reset when I&#x27;m done.

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