Mouse Gestures Dialog Box¶

You can map up to eight commands to mouse gestures from the Mouse Gestures dialog box.

To open the Mouse Gestures dialog box:

Click Tools > Mouse Gestures

Options

Column	Description
Enable mouse gestures	Turns mouse gestures on or off.
4 Gestures	With mouse gestures enabled, allows for one gesture command for each direction: Up, down, left, or right.
8 Gestures	With mouse gestures enabled, allows for one gesture for each direction: Up, down, left, right, or along one of the four diagonals.
Category	Filters the command list by category.
Mouse Gesture assigned commands	Displays the assigned commands in the command list.
Search for	Filters the command list by a search string you enter.
Reset to Defaults	Resets all mouse gesture settings to the system defaults.
Print List	Prints the list of mouse gesture commands.
Description	Displays a description for the selected command.

Columns

Column	Description
Category	Groups commands into categories.
Command	Lists commands. Note: A command is mapped to a mouse gesture only if one of the eight mouse gesture icons appears in the command row under the Select column.
Select	Displays four or eight mouse gesture command mappings when you click the column heading.

Column

Description

Category

Groups commands into categories.

Command

Lists commands.

Note: A command is mapped to a mouse gesture only if one of the eight mouse gesture icons appears in the command row under the Select column.

Select

Displays four or eight mouse gesture command mappings when you click the column heading.

Click a column to sort by that column.

Mouse Gesture Command Icons

With four mouse gestures, you can assign commands for four directions: Up, down, left, or right.

mouse_gesture_tools_upstraight mouse_gesture_tools_rightstraight mouse_gesture_tools_down mouse_gesture_tools_leftstraight

With eight mouse gestures, you can assign commands for eight gesture directions:

mouse_gesture_tools_upstraight mouse_gesture_tools_upright mouse_gesture_tools_rightstraight mouse_gesture_tools_downright mouse_gesture_tools_downleft mouse_gesture_tools_leftstraight mouse_gesture_tools_upleft