"Draw" spells/shapes using mouse - Anyone?

I remember seeing *somewhere* here in blitz3d forums a small demo where you could draw shapes using your mouse. I have an idea about how to technically do this thing, but I would like to see the example and get hints from it.

Anyone seen it? (Anyone knows what I'm talking about?)

Do you mean something like the system used in black & white?

Sounds like it.

Never got the hang of that either.

@weetbix: yep.

I take it you mean Black and White 1 , because I swear it doesnt work in #2.

Anywho, I dont know how sorry :(

You mean mouse gestures, right?

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article2039.asp

http://gestures.sourceforge.net/

http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/misc/misc/mouseandcursorhandling/article.php/c3819

gesture recognition, actually. It's a branch of AI

Yes it does, you just have to buy it from the tribute menu, its just that in one, you were likly not to be using the keyboard, but in two you are more likly to. And hence you tend to use the key shortcuts, but trust me the gestures do work

It can be done with neural network, or by comparing all points of gestures(previosly resize gesture to small size- something like 20x20 or 40x40).

Hmm, thanks all... I didn't find the program, but wikipedia links to some articles / pics which explain this bit more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_gesture

Off to write me own mouse gesture code :)