Mouse Highlighter for Presenting & Teaching

[aromaticfog]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Include an app within PowerToys that highlights mouse movements and left/right click. It would have the options to change the visibility pointer to be high visibility, create highlighted spotlight around the pointer/cursor with options for different geometric shape (Circle, Ellipse, Rectangle) and the color can be changed. This feature would be able to also change the highlight color to distinguish between a left and right click. This feature should also include a mouse pointer spotlight that dims the monitor except on a specific radius around the cursor. The spotlight radius and highlight radius would be user sizeable as well as the high light colors and page dimming amount.

Use case would be use pointer spotlight to show where the pointer is located on screen, while the point itself is a unique high visibility color and then a circular highlight would display around the pointer (left click = yellow, right = red etc) when left/right clicks are registered.

Scenario when this would be used?

With a lot more screen share and virtual teaching the ability focus attention on mouse location and click visibility would greatly increase intuitive understanding of what is happening on screen for those viewing shared content or viewing "how to" videos.

Supporting information

No response

[htcfreek]

@jaimecbernardo
Do we need the mouse tools label here too?

[AndyK70]

Visual feedback for mouse actions, this would be a blast to have.

May I add a suggestion for the mouse pointer highlight: User definable if a full circle or a hollow circle (ring) to use and when using the ring only being able to specify the border width.
Maybe even having both all the time not exlcusive, border-with and border-color and also color of the circle itself using rbga.

[laicasaane]

This feature would be able to also change the highlight color to distinguish between a left and right click.

For wider accessibility, we should have an option to better distinguish between left and right clicks. For example, left click will change the left half of the highlighting circle, while right click will change the right half.

Also the "change" here won't be only color, size change should be an option too.
Color and size won't be mutually exclusive, they can be together for better visibility.

[crutkas]

This is fixed in 0.51. Please head over to our releases and get the update! https://aka.ms/installpowertoys