Hi!

Is it possible to have multiple input devices in vista, i.e. connect e.g. 2 or more mice and have them used at the same time with 2 different mouse pointers that can interact with different windows at the same time?

What I want to achive is something simmilar to this for X windows, Multi-Cursor Window Manager

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Prasanna Vignesh
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What would GetCursorPos return if there were two mouse pointers?

Hi, me and a freind hooked up two mouses or should i say mice to my computer. We were both able to move the one mouse pointer. It is posible to get two mouse pointers on the screen at once and we can control each one?



Have a nice day everyone

I do not know, I guess there must be a change to that call or it will return the main cursor, but I guess you are saying that it will be impossible?
thanks..

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Prasanna Vignesh
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Not "impossible" but certainly very difficult if you intend to maintain compatibility with existing programs that assume that there is only one mouse cursor. I am not under the impression that there is a big demand for multiple mouse cursors.

naveen Wrote:
Rewrite to "GetCursorXPos" where X is assigned to each new pointing device in the system.

The code or simalar code muct already exist a multi monitors exist

As for Laptop give them the same option as multi display, extend on to (ie use a pointer per device or one pointer for all devices)

I suppose i could be over simplifing things as i have never wrote a driver for windows

Hi

I was wondering if you managed to find out any more information about having 2 mouse cursors running from 1 pc, it would be very handy for myself and the company I work for.

I work in the touchscreen industry, and some of our customers want to run 2 touchscreens from 1 pc which is always a problem, as customers who will be facing each monitor adjacent to each other, the customers will be fighting over the cursor, and if 2 customers press there fingures against the touchscreen at the same time, the cursor will jump to the middle of the 2 contact points.

If 2 mouse cursors could work indepent of each other, it would be very useful. I investigated this about 6 years ago and managed to find a pci card which allows you to plug in aditional ps2 mouse and keyboard allowing you to have 2 cursor's but nothing came of it from the customer who was interested in it so I lost all the information.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks

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Please!!

I need a software for controlling two mouse pointers! Either with one mice or two!

When running full screen aps, I want to control the other pointer on my other screen without having to ALT+TAB or CTRL+ESC!

PLease help me!

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I know why we would need multiple independant cursors...they would go with multiple keyboards....the reason would be to have multiple users on same computers. The worst part is it should be so easy to do. i wonder if they didnt do it because they dont want to lose computer sales. wouldnt it be fun if when your friend comes he can do stuff on the other screen running his own apps?....instead of sitting there and watching.....this would add a great dimension to computing.