Re: How to change Mouse behavior

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From: Bob Powell [MVP] (bob_at__spamkiller_bobpowell.net)
Date: 01/20/05 

Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 03:18:22 +0100

I think that you need to be dealing with the low-level system and not what's
happening at an application level.

You cannot have the OS thinking it's in one orientation and a single
application thinking it's in another.

I suggest that you talk to people in the DDK newsgroup. 

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"Carlos García-Carazo" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message 
news:uCxNnXi$EHA.4004@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Sorry, but I didn't explain it correctly.
>
> My problem is:
> 1. Take the monitor in your hands, turn it 90 degrees to the left and
>    carefully leave it over the table.
>
> 2. Move the mouse to the right. I need the windows mouse cursor to go
>   that way, but it moves up.
>
> 3. The user can't click anything because it is very difficult to point the 
> mouse
>   arrow at the desired target.
>
> Looking at your code, your take the mouse coordinates from the MouseMove
> event and transform it to draw the screen. This is correct, but it is only 
> the half
> of my problem.
>
> The other half is that I need to move the mouse arrow in the transformed 
> space.
> In your example, the arrow icon of the mouse (managed by windows)
> should move at a step of 2 when the zoom factor is 200%, to solve my 
> problem.
>
> I need to capture the movement of the mouse and transform it before it 
> applies to
> the Windows arrow, so the user can point with it from its transformed 
> space.
>
> I know this is a weird thing, but it makes sense if you imagine a worker 
> looking at
> the image from a DLP projector over a working table, moving himself
> round the projection, and handling a wireless mouse from this "rotated" 
> position.
>
> Regards,
> Carlos
>
>

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