for the windows experts here; is it technically feasible to use amouse and a touchpad ...

Hi windows experts,

I wonder, if it is technically feasible to use a mouse and a touchpad
simultaneously, but in a different way: e.g. the mouse should only drive
the cursor, the touchpad would be only used for scrolling, zoom, rotation?

Why has nobody issued such a solution?

Other question, with probably the same answer: is it possible to divert
the touchpad buttons for other purposes e.g. cut and paste?


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On 04/07/2014 11:10 AM, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
Hi windows experts,

I wonder, if it is technically feasible to use a mouse and a touchpad
simultaneously, but in a different way: e.g. the mouse should only drive
the cursor, the touchpad would be only used for scrolling, zoom, rotation?

Why has nobody issued such a solution?

Other question, with probably the same answer: is it possible to divert
the touchpad buttons for other purposes e.g. cut and paste?

You can certainly run two or more mouse-like devices at the same time
under Windows. However, whether you can restrict each one's functions to
only do certain things is another issue. That would depend on whether
the device's driver allows you to restrict it.

Yousuf Khan

On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 17:10:06 +0200, Laszlo Lebrun
wrote:

I wonder, if it is technically feasible to use a mouse and a touchpad
simultaneously, but in a different way: e.g. the mouse should only drive
the cursor, the touchpad would be only used for scrolling, zoom, rotation?

Why has nobody issued such a solution?

Other question, with probably the same answer: is it possible to divert
the touchpad buttons for other purposes e.g. cut and paste?

One of the lab exercises that I had in one of my courses was
hooking up multiple mice to a system. My partner and I got four
hooked up. They all worked fully. The instructor said that six had
been managed.

You can probably hook up both mouse and touchpad, but they will
work fully. In order to limit them, you would need a special driver.
If the driver has to be aware of what is on the screen for determining
whether an event should be passed to the software, it is rather likely
it would be a messy kludge.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Laszlo Lebrun wrote:
Hi windows experts,

I wonder, if it is technically feasible to use a mouse and a touchpad
simultaneously, but in a different way: e.g. the mouse should only drive
the cursor, the touchpad would be only used for scrolling, zoom, rotation?

Why has nobody issued such a solution?

Other question, with probably the same answer: is it possible to divert
the touchpad buttons for other purposes e.g. cut and paste?

Physically disable the mouse buttons and wheel.
It's easily done with superglue.
The touchpad would still move the mouse though.

I think just about all mouse software (certainly Microsoft and Logitech)
allow all button and wheel functions to be changed however one likes,
including disabling them. I know nothing about touchpads as I don't use
them. But I'd be surprised if the software did not have similar
functionality.

On 09/07/2014 3:22 PM, Johnbee wrote:
I think just about all mouse software (certainly Microsoft and Logitech)
allow all button and wheel functions to be changed however one likes,
including disabling them. I know nothing about touchpads as I don't use
them. But I'd be surprised if the software did not have similar
functionality.

Although it's highly likely that they allow wheels and buttons to be
customized, but I know of no mouse or touchpad drivers that allow you to
totally disable their movement functions.

Yousuf Khan

Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 09/07/2014 3:22 PM, Johnbee wrote:

I think just about all mouse software (certainly Microsoft and Logitech)
allow all button and wheel functions to be changed however one likes,
including disabling them. I know nothing about touchpads as I don't use
them. But I'd be surprised if the software did not have similar
functionality.


Although it's highly likely that they allow wheels and buttons to be
customized, but I know of no mouse or touchpad drivers that allow you to
totally disable their movement functions.

Yousuf Khan
I'm running Win7 Pro with a Dell laptop and under control panel/mouse there
is a box to check to turn off the touchpad.

Henry

On 7/9/2014 7:17 PM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 09/07/2014 3:22 PM, Johnbee wrote:
I think just about all mouse software (certainly Microsoft and Logitech)
allow all button and wheel functions to be changed however one likes,
including disabling them. I know nothing about touchpads as I don't use
them. But I'd be surprised if the software did not have similar
functionality.

Although it's highly likely that they allow wheels and buttons to be
customized, but I know of no mouse or touchpad drivers that allow you to
totally disable their movement functions.

Yousuf Khan


Some of the older laptops had touchpad BIOS support that could be
disabled. Naturally, there might be conflicts with mouse drivers
and so forth. One of my older laptops, an HP with vista, gave me fits
until I chanced upon the right combination of settings for the touchpad
and mouse drivers. Never upgraded to 7 since the multimedia drivers
were flaky enough with vista. No newer releases of the drivers are
available.