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support for 2 mice? (Announce)

posted by ecm Homepage E-mail, Düsseldorf, Germany, 10.08.2010, 19:04

> > Are you talking about two separate and independent mouse cursors and,
> > possibly, different button characteristics for each?
> I was referring to supporting the use of 2 mice at the same time with
> independent characteristics which from memory (1999!) is how OptiMAME
> worked.
Off topic: Does someone know about a program to use 2 mice this way on modern Windows NT versions?

Not so off topic: At least with Windows, you have to consider how to handle the "keyboard cursor" as well. That is, you can use one of your mice to direct your keyboard input to a particular window or form, but you can't use the mice fully independently if all your keyboard input goes to one form/window at a time. Indeed it would be better to have a second set of both input devices and then be able to direct the secondary keyboard using the secondary mouse. This would at least require a special handler/driver for the keyboard though, and probably intrinsic knowledge of or support by the user interface too.

BTW, something not off topic at all: Adding 100h to make secondary mouse calls is a nice hack, but not that great if you intend to use three mice.

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