High Sign is an application that allows users to easily create and map custom gestures to perform common actions on their Windows PC. Unlike some other mouse gesture recognition software, the user is not limited to a set of predefined gestures. They are free to create any gesture they can think up. The gesture recognition engine was written from scratch and was designed to focus on maximum recognition accuracy with a minimum sample set (typically one (1) sample is all that's required to reliably identify a gesture).
High Sign is my after-work project. I’ve been working on this project as a hobby and it’s pretty far along now. I’ve decided to make it open source so that it’s freely available to anyone interested in learning how mouse gestures are implemented. I will be also be posting new releases regularly so that non-developers can benefit from mouse gestures.
I originally started this project because I had been using a program called StrokeIt. It enabled people to use mouse gestures to automate common tasks on the computer. This program had been absolutely essential in my day to day computer usage. The problem was that the StrokeIt project had unfortunately been abandoned by it’s original developer, and after a couple failed communication attempts with the original developer it was clear that he wasn’t willing or able to open source the project so that others might continue his work. Thus, High Sign was born.
High Sign began as a research project, but has since evolved into a full blown productivity application using mouse gestures. I’ve written the entire code base from scratch so that I could understand all aspects of mouse gestures as well as interacting with other Windows applications. I’ve learned a mountain of new information because of this project and I’m glad that I can make my work available so that others might benefit from my research as well.
Please feel free to browse the project and codebase to see how you can benefit from mouse gestures.
Developers: I invite you to join the project and contribute to the codebase. High Sign has an extensive plug-in system which you can take advantage of to make High Sign even better!
Visit High Sign at CodePlex now!