Vista Multiple Mouse Cursors

[moreleech]

Is there any program out that could do this?
Tried searching many search engines already and nothing that works good with vista

[wreckedcarzz]

I was actually thinking about posting a request like this a couple days ago- anyone know of an app that will do this that is Vista compatible?

[Coeluh]

You mean like you have 2 cursors who do the same thing or you can use 2 mouses?

[tomos]

is this what you had in mind ?
IDEA: 1 computer 2 mice-2 pointers-seperate button programming

[wreckedcarzz]

You mean like you have 2 cursors who do the same thing or you can use 2 mouses?

-Coeluh (May 05, 2009, 06:02 AM)

One cursor with two mice - I was thinking something like a hotkey-togglable thing (ex: Hold Control+Space to use Mouse Cursor 2)

[nite_monkey]

You mean like you have 2 cursors who do the same thing or you can use 2 mouses?

-Coeluh (May 05, 2009, 06:02 AM)

One cursor with two mice - I was thinking something like a hotkey-togglable thing (ex: Hold Control+Space to use Mouse Cursor 2)

-wreckedcarzz (May 05, 2009, 04:42 PM)

I don't know why, but that sounds like a really good idea. It might be pretty useful to leave one on a window you use a lot, and then have the other one to use with windows that you close and change all the time... I don't know.

[urlwolf]

This can be done on linux (X), but of course that says nothing about windows.

[wreckedcarzz]

You mean like you have 2 cursors who do the same thing or you can use 2 mouses?

-Coeluh (May 05, 2009, 06:02 AM)

One cursor with two mice - I was thinking something like a hotkey-togglable thing (ex: Hold Control+Space to use Mouse Cursor 2)

-wreckedcarzz (May 05, 2009, 04:42 PM)

I don't know why, but that sounds like a really good idea. It might be pretty useful to leave one on a window you use a lot, and then have the other one to use with windows that you close and change all the time... I don't know.

-nite_monkey (May 08, 2009, 08:48 AM)

Yea, exactly. Have one on Firefox and one on Xfire, or one on WMP and one in Visual Studio... save a couple seconds here and there, and end up being a little bit more productive (as well as interesting, I've never seen anyone with two cursors, so it would sure get some looks).

[Deozaan]

You mean like you have 2 cursors who do the same thing or you can use 2 mouses?

-Coeluh (May 05, 2009, 06:02 AM)

One cursor with two mice

-wreckedcarzz (May 05, 2009, 04:42 PM)

I'm doing this right now in Windows XP. Two physical mice are connected, and only one cursor is on screen. I don't need a hotkey to toggle between the two. I just grab which one I want to use and it automatically controls the mouse cursor.

Or did you mean one mouse with two cursors?

[wreckedcarzz]

Right - one mouse, two cursors; I got the two mixed up

[Deozaan]

Right - one mouse, two cursors; I got the two mixed up

-wreckedcarzz (May 10, 2009, 01:29 AM)

So what about an AHK script that could teleport the cursor to a certain location when you press a hotkey?

I typically keep all my applications in the same location all the time. I don't maximize them, either, so I can pretty much always see at least a part of everything. AHK could move the cursor somewhere, make an innocent click to give the app focus, then move the cursor to the center of the application.

[wreckedcarzz]

That could work, but I would like to have two separate cursors so that I know where the other one will be at. And while AHK is good, I move windows around CONSTANTLY and many of my windows have similar information (Xfire IMs, for example) that I'm not sure how well AHK would deal with (and those aren't real windows anyways, it is a custom GUI+skinning implementation so that could throw it off as well).

Maybe I'm picky, but I would like to have two independent cursors that I can see simultaneously (maybe the inactive one could be black in color/inverted colors from the default) and can simply switched to via holding/pressing Control+Shift or the middle mouse button or something.

[skrommel]

  Try Mice!

Press F1 to switch between mouse locations.
Edit mice= to add more mouse locations.

Just a quick hack, feel free to add graphics or change hotkey.

Skrommel

[Select]

;Mice.ahk
; Press F1 to switch between mouse positions
;Skrommel @ 2009

#NoEnv
#SingleInstance,Force
CoordMode,Mouse,Screen
CoordMode,ToolTip,Screen

mice=2
mouse=1
Return


F1::
MouseGetPos,mx%mouse%,my%mouse%
mx:=mx%mouse%
my:=my%mouse%
ToolTip,% mouse,% mx,% my,% mouse
mouse+=1
If (mouse>mice)
  mouse=1
ToolTip,,,,% mouse
mx:=mx%mouse%
my:=my%mouse%
MouseMove,% mx,% my,0
Return

[nite_monkey]

I kind of like how skrommel's script works. I might play around with it some. 

[wreckedcarzz]

Yea, it does work quite nicely. It doesn't render a second cursor (maybe could be done via an image of the cursor?) but the tooltip suffices just fine

I'll have to leave it running and see how it works out