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Handwizard enables semiautomatic and automatic cursor moving for interactive construction of cursor moving paths in graphic editors. Semiautomatic and automatic movement of the cursor is carried out on a polyline to the Cursor aim controlled by movements of the mouse.
Besides, Handwizard enables a special kind of mouse movement called "Mouse steps" for execution of a new kind of commands called "Extra commands". To execute Extra commands, there are double mouse movement variants called Double mouse step. Start of execution of the First mouse step and the Second mouse step is followed by opening the proper variant of the Extra Command Menu. The First mouse step is associated with one of the eight Extra command groups, and the Second mouse step with one of the eight Extra commands in the group. So, in total there are 64 mouse Extra commands to be defined.

Each Extra command can be part of one of the five below mentioned Command categories:
1. Extra commands of the Semiautomatic moving category provide the start of Cursor moving procedure execution.
2. Extra commands of the Cursor speed alternation category provide change of the main cursor speed value to an Alternative cursor speed value and back.
3. Extra commands of the Cursor restore category provide cursor movement to the position it had before the last execution of an Extra command from the Cursor moving category.
4. Extra commands of the Cursor moving category provide cursor movement in the coordinates of the screen or the main window of a runtime application. This is made by using the Click option to emulate a left mouse button click, and the Restore option to return the cursor to the starting position.
5. Extra commands of the Keystrokes emulation category provide emulation of simultaneous stroke of one or two alphabetical keys with the ability to emulate "Alt" and "Ctrl" strokes, as well as implied "Shift" strokes.

Handwizard functionality is realized in two mutually exclusive procedures:
- Cursor moving procedure providing semiautomatic and automatic cursor moving;
- Extra command procedure providing execution of mouse Extra Commands.

The Cursor moving procedure is a renewable sequence of modes:
- Origin choice of semiautomatic cursor moving;
- Direction choice of semiautomatic cursor moving;
- Semiautomatic moving of the cursor;
- Automatic moving for getting a closed cursor moving path.

The Extra command procedure is executed continuously, except the time of Cursor moving procedure execution. It begins at Handwizard launch and is in essence a renewable sequence of modes:
- Command expectation;
- Command choice;
- Command execution.

In the Command expectation mode the style and size of the graphic interface element under the cursor are analyzed, and the condition of mouse stop duration exceeding is checked. This test prevents unintended extra command execution during operations with the main menus of the runtime applications, as well as most other controls.

Handwizard user interface includes:
- Handwizard icon in the System Tray of the Taskbar providing Main menu opening, and starting the Cursor moving procedure;
- Main menu;
- Handwizard Settings dialog window;
- Context menu of the Cursor moving procedure;
- Extra Command Menu of the Extra command procedure;
- Cursor moving imaging while executing the Cursor moving procedure.

Handwizard requires a later Microsoft Windows version than Windows Me, availability of a mouse in the system, and the graphics accelerator with 256 MB video memory. The ability to correctly build cursor moving paths was tested in such graphic editors as MS Paint, Adobe Photoshop. It is necessary to allow for the antivirus program to use Handwizard.

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