http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/
Version 0.9.5
StrokeIt is one of those applications you can’t live with out, at least not if you have a mouse. Once installed, you wonder how you got along with out it. It’s grip on you becomes apparent when you use someone else’s computer that doesn’t have it installed.
What does it do? StrokeIt allows you to use mouse gestures with any application in Windows. What are mouse gestures? Click and hold the right mouse button and move the mouse in the form of a C or L, or dash or any other movement. That is a mouse gesture.
With StrokeIt you can program these gestures to perform numerous functions. For example, to close an application, I click and hold the right mouse button and draw a small C with my mouse. The application I draw the C on closes. It is much quicker than pressing Alt-F4 or clicking File and then Exit since you can do it anywhere on the application’s window, even if the window isn’t in the foreground. Also, as you draw a gesture it writes the gesture on the screen in blue, although I have heard turning this feature off improves reliability, which only suffers when processor is being slammed. In these situations, a mouse gesture may not work since the processor is too busy to process the mouse stroke.
I first encountered mouse gestures in the Opera web browser, but I had to be talked into using them by a friend. Once they were turned on I was hooked and scratched my head why Microsoft didn’t think of it (since they have a multi-billion dollar research budget).
Stroke it comes with tons of default gestures, so many that you may never need to add your own. You can also customize gestures to work differently among applications.
I highly recommend this software and install on all my computers, except laptops, when I limited to a touch pad.
StrokeIt is Donationware.
