# DwellClick User Guide

### Basic Clicking

DwellClick monitors the movements you make using the mouse or trackpad (or other pointing device) and generates clicks automatically for you.

How to click: Move the pointer to the position on the screen where you want to click, wait a moment, and DwellClick clicks for you.

Relax, and make gentle movements. For best results, try to avoid moving the pointer unnecessarily. Only move it when you want to click somewhere. After each click, just leave the pointer where it is until you want to click again. Sometimes this takes a bit of getting used to!

If you find that clicks are occurring too quickly or too slowly for you, you can change the delay in the Clicking pane of DwellClick preferences.

You can also use DwellClick to drag, double-click, Control-click and more.

### Dragging using Auto Drag

DwellClick’s Auto Drag feature lets you drag windows, scroll bars and resizable controls easily. To use Auto Drag, simply point at the control to be dragged, and DwellClick begins a drag (that is, it holds down the mouse/trackpad button for you). Auto Drag works when the control under the mouse pointer is one of the following:

- the title bar of an active window
- a scroll bar
- a control for resizing windows
- the resize area of a resizable control (requires Mac OS X 10.6)

To drag other controls, where DwellClick does not do so automatically, select Drag () from the control panel, or press its keyboard equivalent.

You can turn off Auto Drag in the the Intelligence pane of DwellClick preferences, under the Smart Clicking tab.

### The Control Panel

If the control panel is not on the screen, you can show it it by choosing the Show Control Panel command in the menu.

The topmost button in the control panel is the On/Off button (), which is used to turn DwellClick on and off. The other buttons are used to select what type of click DwellClick should perform next. The button that is selected has a pressed-down appearance. The symbols on the buttons representing each click are explained in “Click Types”. below.

You can add more types of click to the control panel using the Panel pane of DwellClick preferences.

### Right-clicking

On a Mac, pressing the right mouse button is equivalent to clicking with the Control key held down. To perform a right click in DwellClick, select Control-click ().

### Click Types

DwellClick can perform the following types of click. To choose the type of click to perform, select it in the control panel, or press its keyboard equivalent if you have assigned one.

| Single Click | Performs a single click
| Double Click | Performs a double click
| Drag | Performs a drag; that is, holds the mouse/trackpad button down, and keeps it down while you move the pointer.
| Control-click | Equivalent to clicking while the the Control key (Ctrl or ⌃) is held down.
| Option-click | Equivalent to clicking while the the Option key (⌥) is held down.
| Command-click | Equivalent to clicking while the the Command key (⌘) is held down.
| Shift-click | Equivalent to clicking while the the Shift key (⇧) is held down.
| Control-drag | Equivalent to dragging while the the Control key is held down.
| Option-drag | Equivalent to dragging while the the Option key is held down.
| Command-drag | Equivalent to dragging while the the Command key is held down.
| Shift-drag | Equivalent to dragging while the the Shift key is held down.
| Click and Copy | Perfroms a single click, then immediately presses Command-C to copy to the Clipboard.
| Click and Paste | Perfroms single click, then immediately presses Command-V to paste from the Clipboard.
| Double Click and Copy | Perfroms a double click, then immediately presses Command-C to copy to the Clipboard. Useful for copying words from text.
| Double Click and Paste | Perfroms double-click, then immediately presses Command-V to paste from the Clipboard. Useful for replacing words in text.
| Drag and Copy | Perfroms a drag, then immediately presses Command-C to copy to the Clipboard. Useful for selecting text.

### Keyboard Equivalents

In the Keyboard pane of DwellClick preferences, you can assign keyboard equivalents for selecting each type of click. You can also assign keyboard equivalents to the following commands:

| DwellClick On/Off | Enable or disable DwellClick
| Click Lock On/Off | See Click Lock.
| Perform Selected Click | Instantly performs the currently selected click. This is useful if you want to repeatedly click in the same place.
| Reselect Previous Click | Selects whatever click was last performed again
| Set Focus to Control Panel | Sets the keyboard focus to the control panel. Use the Up Arrow and Down Arrow keys to choose a button, and press the Space bar to press the selected button.

### Turning DwellClick On and Off

You can turn DwellClick on or off by any of these methods:

- Select or deselect Enable DwellClick in the menu;
- Click the On/Off button () in the control panel;
- Press the DwellClick On/Off keyboard equivalent, if you have assigned one in the Keyboard pane of DwellClick preferences.

When DwellClick is off, it will not generate any clicks.

### Temporarily suspending clicking using Caps Lock

To turn on this feature, select “Don’t click when Caps Lock key is on” in the Keyboard pane of DwellClick preferences.

This is useful if you want to “hover” the pointer over something on screen but not click on it. To temporarily disable automatic clicking, press the Caps Lock key. DwellClick will not click for as long as Caps Lock is on. Press Caps Lock again to re-enable automatic clicking.

It is also useful when dragging. Start dragging using DwellClick, the press Caps Lock. Now you can drag indefinitely, event when you stop moving. When you are ready to release the drag, just press Caps Lock again to turn it off.

### Changing the Default Click

By default, DwellClick performs single clicks when you don’t select any other kind of click. You can change this so that the default is no click, in the Clicking pane of DwellClick preferences.

### Click Lock

In the Panel pane of DwellClick preferences you can choose to show the Click Lock button () at the bottom of the control panel.

When the Click Lock button is pressed, clicks become “sticky”, and DwellClick will keep the same click selected, without reverting to the default click. This is useful for repeatedly doing the same type of click.

You can also toggle Click Lock on/off using its keyboard equivalent, if you have assigned one.

### Intelligent Clicking

DwellClick is aware of situations where it would be inappropriate to generate a click. These are:

- In the menu bar, when you are browsing the menu titles.
- In the corners of the screen, so as not to interfere with Exposé’s hot corners.
- At the bottom of the screen, when the dock is hidden.

This behavior can be customised in the Intelligence pane of DwellClick preferences, under the Smart Clicking tab.

### Application Blocking

You can instruct DwellClick not to click in certain applications. The application list can be defined in the Intelligence pane of DwellClick preferences, under the Applications tab.

### Audio and Visual Feedback

When you click, DwellClick plays a sound when you click and when you begin and end a drag. You can select from a range of sounds, change the volume, and turns sounds on or off. DwellClick also displays a visual animation to confirm each click/drag. You can change the animation color or turn it on or off. The settings can all be found in the General pane of DwellClick preferences.

### Running DwellClick at Startup

In the General pane of DwellClick preferences, you can set DwellClick to run automatically when you login. (Alternatively, you can set this in User Accounts pane of System Preferences, under the Login Items tab.)

### Software Updates

You can find out what version of the software you are running, and whether there are any newer versions available, in Software pane of DwellClick preferences. You can also set DwellClick to automatically check for updates.

### Buying DwellClick

Click Buy DwellClick in the menu to buy a full license online. Buying a license entitles you to used DwellClick beyond the free trial period. You can use your license key to unlock DwellClick on all the computers you personally use.

If you are using DwellClick in free trial mode, you can see how many days you have been using it for in Software pane of DwellClick preferences.

### Enabling Assistive Device Access

Some of DwellClick’s features (Auto-Drag, Intelligent Clicking and Application Blocking) require it to be able to access the Mac OS X Accessibility service. On most Macs it is already enabled. If not, you will see a message in the Intelligence pane of DwellClick preferences.

The steps to enable access are:

1. Open System Preferences.
2. Select Universal Access.
3. Check the box entitled “Enable access for assistive devices”.