mouse ahead

mouse ahead

The point-and-click analog of "type ahead". To manipulatea computer's pointing device (almost always a mouse in thisusage, but not necessarily) and its selection or commandbuttons before a computer program is ready to accept suchinput, in anticipation of the program accepting the input.Handling this properly is rare, but it can help make a WIMP environment much more usable, assuming the users are familiarwith the behaviour of the user interface.