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A mouse button is an electric switch on a computer mouse which can be pressed (“clicked”) to select or interact with an element of a graphical user interface. Mouse buttons are most commonly implemented as miniature snap-action switches (micro switches). The three-button scrollmouse has become the most commonly available design.
Auto clicker. An auto clicker is a type of software or macro that can be used to automate the clicking of a mouse on a computer screen element. [1] Some clickers can be triggered to repeat recorded input. Auto clickers can be as simple as a program that simulates mouse clicking. This type of auto clicker is fairly generic and will often work ...
A typical wireless computer mouse. A computer mouse (plural mice, also mouses) [nb 1] is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface. This motion is typically translated into the motion of the pointer (called a cursor) on a display, which allows a smooth control of the graphical user interface of a ...
Point and click. Point and click are one of the actions of a computer user moving a pointer to a certain location on a screen ( pointing) and then pressing a button on a mouse or other pointing device ( click ). An example of point and click is in hypermedia, where users click on hyperlinks to navigate from document to document.
Mouse tracking (also known as cursor tracking) is the use of software to collect users' mouse cursor positions on the computer. [1] This goal is to automatically gather richer information about what people are doing, typically to improve the design of an interface. Often this is done on the Web and can supplement eye tracking in some situations ...
Cursor is Latin for 'runner'. A cursor is a name given to the transparent slide engraved with a hairline used to mark a point on a slide rule. The term was then transferred to computers through analogy. Cursor on a slide rule. On 14 November 1963, while attending a conference on computer graphics in Reno, Nevada, Douglas Engelbart of ...
A mouse can generate a number of mouse events, such as mouse move (including direction of move and distance), mouse left/right button up/down and mouse wheel motion, or a combination of these gestures. For example, double-clicks commonly select words and characters within boundary, and triple-clicks select entire paragraphs.
A double-click is the act of pressing a computer mouse button twice quickly without moving the mouse. Double-clicking allows two different actions to be associated with the same mouse button. It was developed by Bill Atkinson of Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) for their Lisa project. [1] Often, single-clicking selects (or highlights) an object ...