[FindMyMouse] Add setting to activate by shaking mouse

[jaimecbernardo]

Summary of the Pull Request

What is this about:
Adds a setting to activate Find My Mouse by shaking the mouse pointer.

What is included in the PR:
Adds the activation method of shaking the mouse. The algorithm is more or less like this: "If in the last second the distance travelled by the mouse pointer is 4 times greater than the diagonal of the rectangle containing that movement, it's a mouse shake.
Adds a setting to control activation method as well.

How does someone test / validate:
Go to settings and change the activation method to "shake mouse". Then try shaking your mouse.

Quality Checklist

• Linked issue: Shake mouse to activate Find my mouse #14638
• Communication: I've discussed this with core contributors in the issue.
• Tests: Added/updated and all pass
• Installer: Added/updated and all pass
• Localization: All end user facing strings can be localized
• Docs: Added/ updated
• Binaries: Any new files are added to WXS / YML
  • No new binaries
  • YML for signing for new binaries
  • WXS for installer for new binaries

[htcfreek]

lets move the new setting between the enable switch and the appearance section as we have it on the other utilities

[stefansjfw]

I see that moving pointer in circles not that fast also triggers the FindMyMouse.. Not sure if that's going to be expected by users

[jaimecbernardo]

@htcfreek , Thank you.
Looks like this now:

[jaimecbernardo]

I see that moving pointer in circles not that fast also triggers the FindMyMouse.. Not sure if that's going to be expected by users

@stefansjfw
Thank you. It's hard to avoid false positives here, though. It's one of the reasons it's sort of annoying on macOS as well, it can get triggered without intending. Moving in circles is kinda similar to shaking and not quite a natural movement unless intentional :)

[stefansjfw]

I see that moving pointer in circles not that fast also triggers the FindMyMouse.. Not sure if that's going to be expected by users

@stefansjfw Thank you. It's hard to avoid false positives here, though. It's one of the reasons it's sort of annoying on macOS as well, it can get triggered without intending. Moving in circles is kinda similar to shaking and not quite a natural movement unless intentional :)

Yeah, I fully agree.. I don't have anything to suggest to make the algorithm better :) This is not a blocker at all, just a note.. :)

[stefansjfw]

Looks good & works good

[stefansjfw]

should m_seenAnAbsoluteMousePosition be reset to false here?

[jaimecbernardo]

I wonder. I don't know if we can receive absolute then relative then absolute. Trying to avoid cases where we might get absolute positions with small relative in between, then another absolute.

[stefansjfw]

I don't know if we can receive absolute then relative then absolute

No idea tbh :) But, if I get this right, the if block should only make sense if you get 2 absolute in a row? If you don't reset this, then you can get absolute after some time on different side of the screen and relativeX & relativeY does not represent valid cases? This probably never happen though :D

[jaimecbernardo]

Yeah, I'm not sure. I think even if we receive absolute + relative in a duplicated way it shouldn't be much of an issue 🤷 . It'll just trigger more? :P

[stefansjfw]

Yeah. We are probably overthinking this :D

[SeraphimaZykova]

Works well! I also noticed false positives by moving mouse in circles, but don't think that it's a blocker.

[niels9001]

Just a minor change on the verbage. Should we update the module description as well?

x:Uid="MouseUtils_FindMyMouse" should be come something like:
"Find My Mouse highlights the position of the cursor when shaking the mouse or by pressing the left Ctrl key twice."

x:Uid="Oobe_MouseUtils_FindMyMouse_Description" should become something like:
"Shake the mouse or press the left Ctrl key twice to focus the mouse pointer"

[JamoCA]

Shake Mouse? For highlighting the mouse point on the screen, Windows already has an existing visibility option to Show Location of pointer when I press the CTRL key.

I was going to request a shake feature for the "Always On Top" toy . I recently migrated from a paid version of AquaSnap and their product makes any window stay on top (and optionally toggle transparency) when the mouse is shaken. Is it possible to add a shake feature to the "Always On Top" toy? Thanks.