CocoaSuite for Mac

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• Hard to believe

  IlgazJune 29, 2005

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Nobody gets this miracle of coding and at least tries? I don't tell anything, it has a smooth installer and works in Tiger too, just get it and try.

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• Minority report here we come!

  VersionTrackerUserOpinionJanuary 18, 2004

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />It is 4.50 am and I need to go to bed. This gestures app is absolutely amazing and Text Edit is at the mercy of my mouse now. Making a gesture is basically squiggling some shape or other with your mouse while holding down Ctrl, or alt or any one of three other "modifiers". Cocoa apps recognise the gesture and depending on what you have programmed into the preferences, the app will open new files for you, save, open print dialogue boxes. Anything that is in the menu, you can activate without going to the menu bar. It may sound bizarre but within an hour of using it, it feels so natural, especially when you have a page of text to edit. Adding colours, changing fonts, sizes, alignment is a doddle. You can flick backwards and forwards between italics, underline, colours, fonts, bigger, smaller, left align, need Help, just squiggle an "h". Editing takes a fraction of the time it would be working with a mouse and keyboard. The Gestures install very easily - ie you drag the downloaded Input Managers folder into your home&gt;library. Done. Thereafter a gestures item will appear in any cocoa application menu THE NEXT TIME YOU OPEN THAT APP. Don't lose heart like I did and neglect to close Safari, Mail, Address book before taking a look and wondering where on earth the Cocoa gestures option had gone! So, for Text Edit for instance, launch it, click on Text Edit in the menu bar and open the preference panel for Cocoa Gestures. You have to define a modifying key and a mouse button. I chose Ctrl and elected for the left mouse button. Then you record your preferred gesture, say a circle to "O"pen a new window. It is like adding a playlist in iTunes. You select ADD, double click the blue cell, and then its nothing like iTunes, because a big empty window/drawing pad appears for you to record your custom gesture. Then define the action by going to Text Edit and selecting File&gt;Open. That's it. The next time you make a rough circle on a Text Edit window with ctrl and left mouse button pressed down, another window will open. Do an "S" for save, select File&gt;Save "u"ndo, "h"elp, "b"old "p" for print and so it goes on. Z for zoom, f for fonts... I think anyone used to writing "shorthand" on a Handspring type device will pick this up in no time. I cant stop grinning, this is so neat. I trust that it is stable, it is very OSX and just feels so Mac.

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