Awesome Mouse

Most computer tasks can be automated, but sure enough, your intervention is still required sooner or later. Automation can also include mouse and keyboard interaction, programming the computer to do your activities for you. For instance, Awesome Mouse helps you build several steps to automate work with the mouse.

A neat advantage is you don’t even have to go through the effort of installing the application, which means you can use it on other computers. Registries don’t need to be modified for the application to work. However, you need to check whether or not .NET Framework is installed on the PC you plan to use Awesome Mouse.

The main window doesn’t represent a problem in accommodation, letting even inexperienced individuals quickly get the hang of things. A neat descriptions sections shows all there is to know about the overall operation, and if a step is not configured as intended, the application prompts you with a message with what needs to be done.

Unfortunately, you need to manually create each step, because there’s no built-in recorder to help you configure a task faster. Although this eliminates the need to edit start and end of macros, it takes a lot more time, and effort to add each step. This is done by pointing the cursor in the right direction, capturing coordinates, and choosing the action to perform.

The mouse can either perform a single click, double click, or simply jump to that location. A time field needs to be filled in with delay value to add between actions, as well as another one to specify repetition rate.

Awesome Mouse only lets you configure actions for the left mouse button, with no workaround to use the right one, not to mention scroll, or the middle button. What’s more, changes are discarded on exit, with no built-in save option, meaning you need to configure it at every launch.

All things considered, we come to the conclusion that Awesome Mouse comes with good intentions, but lacks various features not only to enhance the way you configure macros, but even basic operations like saving, which has a considerable impact on overall practicality. You can only configure actions for the left mouse button, and it can take a while to finish a task.