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Refine mouse position with mini-grid #724

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Sometimes I need to refine my mouse position just a little bit for tasks that require extra precision. Currently, I have to potenttially move the mouse right then up then maybe right a little more.

The solution to this is to pop up a very small mouse grid at the cursor to allow precise refinement. Ideally it should have enough visual information to get within 2 or 3 pixels of where you want it. It might work best as a circular grid, though a square could work just fine.

The part that is most difficult is making the grid as performative as possible. To be most useful, it needs to be about as fast as Dragon's mouse grid, if not faster. The problem with wxPython is it may be too slow. The first step is trying to create a small window and render it as fast as possible. This should determine the feasibility.

If that is not fast enough, we could potentially use Windows functionality, possibly through win32gui.

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    Caster Core SpecIssues for Caster Specs that are not part of the application or language specific grammar/ccrMouseGridsIssues dealing with MouseGridsNew FeatureA new feature that is not currently implemented.

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