Re: Is it possible to invert left-right sense of mouse in CE.Net?

Paul G. Tobey [eMVP] wrote:
I doubt that such a weird feature is already there, but you could write your own mouse driver based on the existing one in Windows CE to do that, under control of a registry key, maybe, I guess. Can we ask why?

Sure.
Our customer is making their own optical thumb-trackball type of thing.
They're making their own as it has to work under 10-20m of mucky water. At one point it was at 90 degrees to the usual orientation (so up/down became left/right) but I talked them out of that, so now it is just a left-right inversion I have to deal with. They say it can't be sorted out in hardware because it is just a chip with a window in the top or something sensing the movement of the ball, and the orientation of the components can't change as it is the only way it will all fit together (it needs to fit into the handle of our device).

My fallback solution if modding the driver is no good is to disable the windows pointer and draw my own pointer on my app dialog from within my app. Shame there is no extant registry setting though (I had little hope but figured I'd ask).

It isn't as weird a requirement as you'd imagine, we've had to do other weird inversional things due to having to mount screens upside down & stuff before.

Thanks anyway for the reply,

Regards,

5thWheel
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