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The guy who wrote the app is always on the forums and releasing updates. I don't know what the other reviewer here is talking about.
ConsNeed to be familiar with scripting or you probably won't be able to do much.SummaryI used Strokeit for years but it rarely gets updated. I found Strokes Plus and it does everything Strokeit did but is 100 times better in every way. Once you get used to having mouse gestures, you go crazy without them. I'm glad something was made to replace Strokeit and it's kept up to date.Reply to this review Was this review helpful? (0) (0) 1.0 stars"Very buggy and useless"July 23, 2012 | By SomeGuy1122 Version: StrokesPlus 2.2.6ProsIt's creator has basically tried to copy other mouse gesture apps out there.The first look of it seems good, but it's all "painted on".ConsAs mentioned, it's very buggy, and lacks a lot of important options a mouse gesture application should have.
* The most important of all is that it is built in such a bad way that it interferes with the graphics of the system, making it slow and may even cause crashes of browsers. It made my Firefox choppy and flickery whenever i had it on. It did not go away even after un-installation and restoring windows. Tried getting help solving this issue from the creator, but he of course denied the whole thing that it's his app and started coming up with imaginary scenarios about why that happened, while the whole time he knew what i was talking about.
So if you like your system the way it is, don't install this junk.
* No detection of flash tabs/windows in Firefox. Iits creator "claims" it does, but it doesn't.
* No functioning rocker gestures for example for going to next and previous tab in a browser. Again its creator claims it does but it doesn't.
* No functioning rocker gestures for example for going to next and previous tab in a browser. Again its creator claims it does but it doesn't.
* Can't have multiple apps for one gesture, so you gotta do a new app for every gesture tyle you want to make.
* Only one gesture per function.
* Gestures don't have a clear marking spot, meaning you can't have gestures of left and right and at the same time have L_D or R_D, as they the left and right gestures would be detected as the latter two.
* Complete lack of functionality for a real gesturing experience as the other moues gesture apps have provided. As the creator claims, it's not for the "technically challenged" or whatever insult he was throwing at me at his site.
* As mentioned above, a delusional little guy as the creator which instead of helping, actually needs a lot of help himself.
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To sum up, this is the result of someone trying to copy other similar applications without knowing what they are doing, and failing at that miserably.
There is no getting help either at its forum, as the creator of it which runs the place thinks very highly of his application and answers any criticism or pointing out of the bugs in his app with insults!
I tried helping him improve this, even gave him an AHK script and combined it with a lua script from his own app to make a hybrid gesture for Firefox, something he/she later put in his app as a function but never thanked me for. And i'm still stuck with a ruined Firefox profile and probably system because of this program.
StrokeIt is the best mouse gesture application for windows, and has all the options this doesn't have. Another good moues gesture application is "Radial Menu", an Autohotkey script which takes gesturing to whole other level.
Updated on Aug 2, 2012
This is actually pretty good compared to the other gestures out there. Just forget my review, made it out of rage.
Whether i like the creator of this or not, this app is the best mouse gesture app out there now and it's very useful.
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