Mouse Accell plugin update request

[Ron]

I have not contacted him. I'm not quite sure what this plugin does but judging by the name it moves the mouse at different speeds.

Girder has this implemented now. See the mouse tab.

Some good values

step 1
large step 5
timeout 300
holdtime 1500

[Ron]

Sure it is possible. Do I want to implement it ? No. :-) Why? because I think the mouse is much more controllable the way it is now.

[Ron]

Allowing variables there would break compatibility, don't want to do that :-) Large step I could do since it has only been there for 1 release. Not too many people are using that.

[Ron]

Because currently that value is stored in a integer field, the variable needs to be stored in a string field. I'm aware that you can code around this, but I do not want to put this kind of code in Girder. It makes for very messy coding.

[Ron]

I'll add the variable in the large step, but if people come whining at my door because i broke their GML file i'll send them to you :-)

[Ingo]

Ron,
how about enabling variables in step/large step (maybe even timeout and holdtime...)?
This would allow anyone to implement his own way of accellerating the mouse...

[Ingo]

Ron,

wouldn't hurt to much. would make it eh... somewhat less intuitive, but putting something like 0 in step, [var] in large step, timeout shouldn't matter because holdtime=0 should make the first step a large step.... this should do the trick for a completely user/variable controlled mouse move.

just for better understanding: why (and how) would it break compatibility?

[Ingo]

ok, maybe I should have asked for this in 3.1.... the converter 3.1->3.2 could have done this change. so now it's to late for this round of changes ;-(

Thanks for the clarification.

[mitko]

To the author of MouseAccell:
Please update your plugin for version 3.2 of Girder

Ron, will you try to contact him ? Or do you have the source? I sent him an e-mail also so let's hope he is willing to update it and hadn't lost the source :)

[mitko]

:)
I know about the new mouse features that Girder 3.2 has but it's not exactly the same. With MouseAccell the mouse moves with larger steps more longer you hold the button down (1pixel then 2pixels then 5pix and so on). so you get a very big step when you hold it for a long time.

with the new features in 3.2 you get only 2 differents steps :(
can you do s.th. about this? for example make an option to use exponetial grouth of the step (or even constant grouth - s.th. like this
first step = step
second step = Step + LargeStep
third step = Step + 2*LargeStep
n-th step = Step + (n-1)*LargeStep

do you get the idea? do you think this is possible?

[mitko]

So, Ron, did I understand you right? You won't add my request - that's OK if you can implement the variable in Large Step. Will you do this?

[mitko]

10x
:)