twin mice (trackballs)

gjm · Post by **gjm** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:28 pm

sweetjesus wrote:
gjm wrote:
Homebelly wrote: I've used two track balls,,
I did it for ergonomic reasons as i prefer track balls to a regular mouse but had a huge work space that meant i was constantly reaching back for the track ball and dragging cables all over every where. I just got around this problem by having one TB next to the key board and the other over by my controller.
I got it. You are still close enough to see your screen, maybe have to turn your head left or right, but you don't have to slide your chair or reach across to the single mouse or get up and take a step, lean over etc, go back, and repeat. Thanks.
+1

I'd have a mouse + trackball for different levels of control and another mouse on the other desk for convenience.

Ok. I am still curious. So you still have the one cursor, but do the buttons on the mouse unit do different things than the buttons on the track ball unit? Is this what you mean by different levels of control? If not, can you describe your different levels of control... please. Sounds very interesting. Thanks.

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:37 pm

gjm wrote:
sweetjesus wrote:
gjm wrote: I got it. You are still close enough to see your screen, maybe have to turn your head left or right, but you don't have to slide your chair or reach across to the single mouse or get up and take a step, lean over etc, go back, and repeat. Thanks.
+1

I'd have a mouse + trackball for different levels of control and another mouse on the other desk for convenience.
Ok. I am still curious. So you still have the one cursor, but do the buttons on the mouse unit do different things than the buttons on the track ball unit? Is this what you mean by different levels of control? If not, can you describe your different levels of control... please. Sounds very interesting. Thanks.

I only have the one cursor to be honest. As for level of control, the mouse rapes my wrist less than a trackball when it comes to fiddly editing etc.. so for general computing I used the trackball and the mouse for doing anything useful.

I dont use the trackballs extra buttons for anything fancy but I do have a couple more shortcuts available due to the extra buttons but at the end of the day 'button1' is always a left click and 'button2' is always a right click.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:39 pm

gjm · Post by **gjm** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:46 pm

thefool wrote:

sweetjesus wrote:

I only have the one cursor to be honest. As for level of control, the mouse rapes my wrist less than a trackball when it comes to fiddly editing etc.. so for general computing I used the trackball and the mouse for doing anything useful.

I dont use the trackballs extra buttons for anything fancy but I do have a couple more shortcuts available due to the extra buttons but at the end of the day 'button1' is always a left click and 'button2' is always a right click.

Ok, so your different levels of control are to do with your wrist action

..... not with anything mapped to the keys on the different units. Its all about movement.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:59 pm

because you keep asking about the cursers!

dcease · Post by **dcease** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:05 pm

thefool wrote:because you keep asking about the cursers!

i'll curse you, hehheh... curses (again)
that's all i have time for...

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:16 pm

yeah i knew it was wrong the moment i pushed "submit" but didn't have time to edit it back then, hoping that somebody like you wouldn't pick it up

gjm · Post by **gjm** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 10:57 pm

dcease wrote:
thefool wrote:because you keep asking about the cursers!
i'll curse you, hehheh... curses (again)
that's all i have time for...

Who does?

gjm · Post by **gjm** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:02 pm

thefool wrote:because you keep asking about the cursers!

Apart from the spelling, your intent was to mock me and my curiosity for cursors? Curse you

I was supposed to figure out without being told that you really can't have two seperate independant pointing devices. Right you are.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:02 am

sorry

gjm · Post by **gjm** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:23 am

Your forgiven

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:27 am

dodgyedgy · Post by **dodgyedgy** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:12 pm

Back OT

Two cursors?

I really do think this should have been done years ago.

Two cursors, one machine two screens, live set.

bosh.

Warminstrel · Post by **Warminstrel** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:53 pm

I personaly use a heads up display c/w iris recognition from an old Apache helicoptor so I only have to look at the screen and the mouse pointer follows.

The only drawback is that I have occaisionaly destroyed my home studio with un-wanted Hellfire missiles and the odd bit of napalm.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:28 pm

Excactly what i did myself! The thing is, i once hit a pedestrian walking outside the window and the government insisted i had to give them the equipment back