enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Pointing device - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_device

    An elder 3D mouse. 3D pointing device. A pointing device is a human interface device that allows a user to input spatial (i.e., continuous and multi-dimensional) data to a computer. Graphical user interfaces (GUI) and CAD systems allow the user to control and provide data to the computer using physical gestures by moving a hand-held mouse or ...

  3. Pointing stick - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick

    A pointing stick (or trackpoint, also referred to generically as a nub or nipple) is a small analog stick used as a pointing device typically mounted centrally in a computer keyboard. Like other pointing devices such as mice, touchpads or trackballs, operating system software translates manipulation of the device into movements of the pointer ...

  4. Cursor (user interface) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursor_(user_interface)

    On the sign-in screen, the mouse pointer would simply jump to the point touched and a left click would be sent on a tap, similar to when a touch input is used on operating systems before Windows 7. In Windows 8 and above, visual touch feedback displays a translucent circle where the finger makes contact with the screen, and a square when ...

  5. Pointing device gesture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_device_gesture

    The mouse gesture for "back" in Opera – the user holds down the right mouse button, moves the mouse left, and releases the right mouse button.. In computing, a pointing device gesture or mouse gesture (or simply gesture) is a way of combining pointing device or finger movements and clicks that the software recognizes as a specific computer event and responds to accordingly.

  6. Touchpad - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchpad

    Touchpad. A touchpad or trackpad is a type of pointing device. Its largest component is a tactile sensor: an electronic device with a flat surface, that detects the motion and position of a user's fingers, and translates them to 2D motion, to control a pointer in a graphical user interface on a computer screen.

  7. Voice Finger - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_Finger

    Voice Finger is a software tool that enables users to control the mouse cursor and keyboard through speech recognition. [1] Voice Finger improves on the default Windows Speech Recognition tools by reducing the number or length of voice commands required to carry out various tasks. Voice Finger uses an expandable grid to click anywhere on the ...

  8. Computer mouse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse

    A computer mouse with the most common features: two buttons (left and right) and a scroll wheel (which can also function as a button when pressed inwards) A typical wireless computer mouse. A computer mouse (plural mice, also mouses) [ nb 1 ] is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface.

  9. Control key - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_key

    A Control key (marked "Ctrl") on a Windows keyboard next to one style of a Windows key, followed in turn by an Alt key The rarely used ISO keyboard symbol for "Control". In computing, a Control keyCtrl is a modifier key which, when pressed in conjunction with another key, performs a special operation (for example, Ctrl+C).