RSI What is it? It is a program i wrote in Visual Basic. It registers how many meters you move your mouse over the table. It also registers your right and left mouse-clicks and it also shows you where you've been with your mouse. I wrote this program in the beginning of 2000 and i had it running on my home and work- computer ever since without a hickup. It learned me that in 2 years time i moved my mouse about 30 Kilometers over the table and that i clicked my left mousebutton about 1.500.000 times What is it good for? Practically nothing but I think you'll be surprised to see how many meters you move the mouse over the table and to which parts on the screen you've been. Despite the name of the program i don't pretend to know a thing about RSI (the disease i mean). I could have build in a mechanism that warns the user to stop working for a moment but i don't know what the correct triggers are. For the future.... I plan to build in an array with contains the different coordinates where the mouse has been so you could play back the track where you have been in high speed or slowmotion. When i find the time i will also build in the display of inches besides meters. The screens...Above picture shows you the program's main screen in single monitor mode. When you resize the form it it will keep your monitors aspect ratio. You can resize it to your likes.
This picture shows the main screen in dual monitor mode in which the screen is twice as wide as in singe monitor mode. Dual monitor mode only works correct if both monitors have the same resolution. When you resize the form it it will keep your monitors aspect ratio.
How to use it? This screen shows you the settings screen. You can allways come in this screen just by clicking the in main screen. When you start the program for the first time you must first calibrate it by filling in YOUR values in the white textboxes, click the blue labels for explanation on how to get your values correct, this is an essential part ! Click in the coloured boxes to get the colour settings of your likes. In the upper part of the screen you can see that i run this program since 15-04-2000 and that i almost made 12 Kilometers with my mouse since. It also shows that since then i have clicked my LEFT mouse button almost 450.000 times and my RIGHT button more the 26.000 times! DOWNLOAD RSI.EXE I didn't use any exotic Windows components so no installation is needed. Just copy the file to a directory of your likes and run it. When you want it to start up automatically on bootup, just place a link to it in your startup folder. All settings will be written in the registry so no extra files are needed. VB Runtime files In order to be able to run a program written in VB you MUST have the Visual Basic Runtime files installed on your computer. Hope you'll enjoy it!