On 11/15/18 9:06 PM, Mike wrote:
On 11/15/2018 4:52 PM, JBI wrote:
On 11/15/18 7:00 PM, Mike wrote:
On 11/15/2018 11:57 AM, JBI wrote:
I've recently begun using two monitors on my Win 10/7 setups that
use a single desktop.Â* Apparently, the standard configuration is to
use a single mouse to scroll between monitors.Â* This works to some
extent, but is it possible to use two mice, with each mouse having
control over what appears on each monitor?Â* Surprisingly, I found
little after googling other than this:

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/install-...-one-computer/


Tried the software suggested there and it works, sort of.
Unfortunately, some key apps I use become buggy when using that
software to control the mice.

Any suggestions for a free equivalent that would do a better job
welcomed.

Thanks.

This seems to do what it says
https://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/...herMouse.shtml

Thanks for the suggestion.Â* I tried the portable version.Â* Thought we
had a winner, but clicking is erratic.Â* If I create a circle in
Affinity and hold while using the other cursor to play a video, I get
sudden extra lines at random well outside of the circle when I press
play.

Experiments suggested that you really don't have two active mice.
You get one active mouse at a time.Â* Clicking on one disables the other
one.

If I could figure out how to keep VLC media player active even when
switching back to Affinity, then I could just use the space bar to
pause the video and forget the extra mouse entirely.Â* However, once I
start working within Affinity, space pause function of VLC is lost.

I think the keyboard always follows the active window.Â* I doubt
you can do whatÂ* you want without intercepting the keyboard interface.
Back in the day,Â* you could write a background program to scan
the serial or parallel ports and respond to a switch closure.
Those ports are mostly gone these days.Â* The Logitech setpoint
software lets you assign functions to the mouse/keyboard.
Maybe something in there could be used.

Don't have nearly enough info to tell what you're doin, but I'll just
throw this out.
I have a problem with vlc switching on the SAP audio channel randomly.
I tried to create a script to let me turn it off, but I had to resort to
Visual basic.
You can use sendkeys to send a key to VLC.Â* Problem is that VLC window
title is different with different source media and seemingly every version.
When I click my icon, it delays 2 seconds before issuing the sendkeys
command to the active window.
That gives me two seconds to click on the vlc window to make it the
active one.

I'm not proficient with powershell, but I suspect that could do the same
thing.

Crude, but effective VB6.
' VLC uses "b" to switch between audio channels.
' This program sends a "b" to the ACTIVE window.
' Click the icon to start the program
' You have two seconds to click the VLC window to activate
' it so it can receive the keystroke corresponding to
' pressing the "b" key.
' Program terminates after two seconds.
' Would be nice to have the program reactivate the VLC
' window, but the title bar changes depending on the version
' of VLC and the media selected.


Private Sub Form_Load()Â*Â*Â*Â* 'set visible to false
Sleep 2000Â* 'need time to focus desired window to receive keystroke
Â*SendKeys "b", TrueÂ*Â* ' Send "b" to active window works with notepad
Â*Unload Me
End Sub


But that still won't help if you need to hold the mouse click
while you do it.

It's ok, thanks for trying to help. Out of the two programs tried, the
first one (Teamplayer) actually seemed on the right track until I ran
into program specific issues and erratic mouse behavior.

I'm really surprised that this wasn't a much more common request and
therefore more software available, but I guess I was asking to do
something uncommon. For now, after some practice, I think I can just
keep moving the mouse cursor over to the added screen and manually
start/ stop the video while each time coming back and trying to emulate
the step(s) shown in the program. Just having the benefit of the added
screen will be a big help as I wasn't really even aware of this feature
until today. And it appears to be working fine with Ubuntu too (which I
am on now).



Have not tried these
https://www.raymond.cc/blog/install-...-one-computer/