click-through

Make OSX application respond to first mouse click when not focused

Normal OSX applications eat the first mouse click when not focused to first focus the application. Then future clicks are processed by the application. iTunes play/pause button and Finder behave differently, the first click is acted on even when not focused. I am looking for a way to force an existing application (Remote Desktop Conne...

click paths in logs or analytics?

I'm trying to see the path my users take when clicking thru a web app I have. I've got logs, awstats and webalizer on the server-side, and I'm looking to install some sort of analytical product. I don't see any breadcrumb/click path data in my log files. Am I missing it? Barring that, what analytical products (Yahoo, Google, etc) can do ...

How to allow click-through and a cursor in a background app while not taking the active appearance away from another app

Here are my goals: My application displays an overlay window above all applications' windows. The user can draw in the overlay window. The mouse cursor changes to a specific cursor while in the overlay window. The application that has the active appearance before summoning the overlay window still has it while the overlay window is up ...

WPF: drawing own cursor - nontrivial problem

i need to implement a cursor with some very specific features: it has to be animated because after n seconds it automatically clicks - so the animation is feedback for the user when the click will happen it has to snap to some of our controls it has to work outside of our application the approaches so far: render my WPF-control i...

Analytics Obsession

My client is really obsessive about analytic data. He wants to explore the tiniest details to maximize his open, click, and conversion rates. While theres nothing wrong in that, but sacrificing usability and the site's design in order to achieve better performance? He'd use an ugly looking red button only because it performs better than ...