Item Settings - ClickyMouse

There are two types of items: Macro items and clip items. While macro item allows you to perform variety of different tasks (from simple text inserting or starting application to complex scripts) clip item allows you just one thing: pasting clipboard data. Using clip items you can simply insert pictures, formatted texts, tables or charts to Windows applications. To access item properties double-click on an item in the main window.

General:

- Name - the name of the item is used just for your easy navigation.
- Description - description of the item.
- Change icon - allows to select/change icon.
- Disable - if checked, the item is disabled and user is not able to run it using a mouse event defined in "Event" part of the window (see below).

Events:

Mouse Event:

- Mouse click - user can select from left, middle or right mouse button click either anywhere on the screen, or anywhere within a window, or on the window's title bar, or on desktop or on the Taskbar.
- Shake mouse horizontaly - user quickly moves mouse from left to right and back several times. The user can define if the mouse should be anywhere on the screen or in upper/middle/lower area of the screen.
- Shake mouse vertically - user quickly moves mouse from top to bottom and back several times. The user can define if the mouse should be anywhere on the screen or in left/middle/right area of the screen.
- Move mouse to screen edge - the user can select from left, right, upper and bottom screen edge.
- Move mouse to screen corner - the user can select from upper-left, upper-right, bottom-left and bottom-right corner.
- None - no event is defined (the macro can be executed from the program, see running macros).

Control keys:

> Alt, Ctrl and Shift key can be used together with the mouse event specification above.

Example: The user can specify, for example, this: "run macro if the user clicks (left button) on the Taskbar while holding Alt key pressed".

If the event specified here occurs the associated macro is started.

Macro:
In this section, the user can edit macro. If the item was created as a "clip item" this page is not available.

- Macro - define the macro you want to run here. Just type the macro text in or use "Add/Insert" buttons of the "Available Commands" window. Depending on the "Raw source text / Formatted" switch the macro is displayed as plain text or sequence of steps.
- Raw source text - if selected, the macro is displayed as a plain text and can be edited as any other text.
- Formatted - if selected, the macro is displayed as a sequence of steps (commands).
- Edit - allows to visually edit command.
- |< << >> >| - use these arrows for navigation in macro.
- Up - moves the macro steps one row up (only if "formatted" macro view).
- Down - moves the macro steps one row down (only if "formatted" macro view).
- Copy - copies selected macro step (only if "formatted" macro view).
- Delete - deletes selected macro step (only if "formatted" macro view).
- Other / Insert recorded macro - inserts macro recorded in the memory.
- Other / Remove timing commands - removes timing commands <wx> from the macro. These commands are in the macro if user records macro with real time information.
- Other / Remove mouse move commands - removes mouse move commands <mm> from the macro. These commands are in the macro if user records macro with mouse move information.
- Available Commands - all the available commands organized in the tree. Just select the command in the tree and press "Add" (adds the command to the end of macro) or "Insert" button. This window appears automatically when "Item Properties - Macro" page is selected.

Clip:
Insert clipboard data. If the item was created as a "macro item" this page is not available.

- Paste -click this button to insert data from the clipboard to the item.
- Copy - click this button to copy data from the item to the clipboard.

Options:
In this section, there are additional options the user can set for each item.

- Pass text through clipboard - if the macro is just a text with no commands or special keys then it can be inserted to the destination window through the clipboard. It is faster especially if the text is bigger. If this option is checked and the macro contains commands then the commands are not executed.
- Playback macro - user can control the playback speed of macro if it contains wait commands (usually recorded macros).
- Repeat macro - how many times should be the macro repeated.
- Run macro in separate process - during the macro execution no other macro can start. This is not convenient for macros that can take very long to finish (for example, FTP download). In such case there is an option to start time consuming macro in separate process so that it doesn't block other macros from starting.
- Add to tray menu - if checked, the item is available in the tray menu.
- Run this macro on the program startup - if checked, the macro is automatically executed when the program starts.
- Use this item as template - if checked, this item is available in the list of templates that can be used to create new items.

Related topics: Running Macros