Tell Gus what you think, but remember- you are in his home. Be a good guest.

Wow, this looks like the first gesture app I could actually care about :D

Anyway, without trying it, here's a suggestion: Let us run Automator actions too, not just applescripts.

Posted by Kevin Ballard at April 28th 2005 11:42 PM

You'll kick their ass, I just had to tell you about duh udder guyz.

Posted by Joe at April 28th 2005 11:54 PM

Wow!

You just reasoned me why I ought to run to queque to get the Tiger right now.

This coolness I can immediately figure out 1000 uses for. Just programming the hotkey to some extra button on mouse, and arranging and grouping the commands on grid and ...

I second the opinion to provide for Automator also.

Posted by EsaKan at April 29th 2005 01:46 AM

Amazing!
I am using Cocoa Gestures right now, but yours looks much nicer.
Any way to make the scripts application sensitive? Ah, I see I can maybe do that in System Events to make a keystroke.

I'm off to play...

Posted by charlie at April 29th 2005 02:49 AM

Kevin- Automator actions was the fist way I wanted to do it- I just couldn't find an api (I didn't look too hard) to call them from within my app. It's on my list of things to ask about at WWDC.

Charlie- I'm sure I can make it app sensitive, but that'll have to wait till after I ship my other apps :)

Posted by August Mueller at April 29th 2005 05:26 AM

You just blew my mind. Heh. I never cared about things like CocoaGestures, but that looks interesting. My first thought was "This is to my trackpad as Quicksilver is to the keyboard" which I'm not sure is completely accurate but a good starting point in my mind at least.

Posted by Jon at April 29th 2005 08:36 AM

I've been a user of gestures off and on in other apps (even XEmacs) for a few years now... really liked them for casting miracles in that game Black and White :)

Your version, with the guide circles as a feedback mechanism, seems like a really cool implementation. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work much on my 800Mhz 12" PB-- not sure why.

Maybe this would make sense to you: There seems to be a very high threshold for trackpad movement. I want to just flick my finger a little bit to make the shapes, but when I'm holding the gesture hotkey, I can't get the mouse to move at all unless I make a very exaggerated move, like completely from the top to the bottom of the pad.

Seems really rough on my machine right now, but I'd love to see where this app ends up, as a complement to Quicksilver

Posted by l.m.orchard at May 1st 2005 09:09 AM

Looks great.

Thought about using gestures as an input trigger to quicksilver? I imagine you'll get a lot of 'what if gestures could to this' (eg automater) which would be solved if you made gestures a QS input trigger.

Posted by Wayne Connor at May 8th 2005 04:11 PM