Ambidextrous mouse users?

[GermyBoy]

How many of you are ambidextrous mouse users? I've had to start using my mouse with my left hand (already left handed) because I have tendonitous (sp?) in my right hand now, from biking (crappy gears require off hand position to change them, so I just used my finger).

It takes me a lot longer now to use the mouse with this hand.

Also, I can move left and right fine, but I always use the left hand for my flight sim games. Anyone know how to invert *JUST* the Y-axis in Windows? I think that would be a lot easier to use. Thanks.

Oh yeah...is there a way to have TWO mice pointers on your computer at once, and have two mice? I'd like to have another mouse pointer, as I'll be getting another monitor (for a grand total of 3) for next year, and I would like to have another pointer to move around. Would be more convenient for dragging things from here and there. Plus, it would bring a new level to multitasking!!

Peace,
GermyBoy

 

[vi edit]

You can have two at once. Just plug one into the PS/2, and a second into the USB port.

 

[ElFenix]

i used to... played so much quake and uo that my index finger started hurting... so i figured out how to do it left handed. haven't done that in a while though. my setup was one on ps2 and the left one on serial. that was back in 1998.

 

[GermyBoy]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
You can have two at once. Just plug one into the PS/2, and a second into the USB port.

Or I can use USB hubs and have 15 at once.
My question is, can I have two seperate cursors on the screen at once? That would really help me work faster and more efficiently.

 

[sheselectric]

dunno about two cursors...but i don't see why not. i don't think it would help you be more efficient though...might just confuse you.

i'm left-handed but i can't use left-handed mice OR right-handed mice with my left hand
we lefties are oppressed in this right-handed world of ours....

 

[GermyBoy]

Well it would be more productive if I can do two things at once on different monitors. Move something right hand. Move head (not mouse), move something left hand! So great! I think it would be awesome. Plus, it'd become a new super fantastic way to do things in the Windows environment.

 

[Cyberian]

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

 

[AreaCode707]

Ambidextrous here. I can mouse equally well with my right or my left, usually using my right because of habit and because that's the side it's on, and everyone else can use it that way. I'm minimally ambidextrous in writing as well - I take notes with my left if my right hand hurts but the writing looks like a second grader's.

 

[yakko]

I am learning because I have two on my desk for different machines.

 

[Triumph]

I can use my mouse lefty just as well as righty, except for things like Quake. I have to use it lefty now, it hurts too much to use it righty. I hate carpal tunnel/tendonitis.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: HotChic
Ambidextrous here. I can mouse equally well with my right or my left, usually using my right because of habit and because that's the side it's on, and everyone else can use it that way. I'm minimally ambidextrous in writing as well - I take notes with my left if my right hand hurts but the writing looks like a second grader's.

i did that. professors look at you funny when you turn in a test with two different handwritings in it.

 

[GermyBoy]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: HotChic
Ambidextrous here. I can mouse equally well with my right or my left, usually using my right because of habit and because that's the side it's on, and everyone else can use it that way. I'm minimally ambidextrous in writing as well - I take notes with my left if my right hand hurts but the writing looks like a second grader's.

i did that. professors look at you funny when you turn in a test with two different handwritings in it.

Haha! That's pretty funny!

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
You can have two at once. Just plug one into the PS/2, and a second into the USB port.

Does this actually create a second pointer? If you plug a mouse into the USB port on a laptop, for example, you get a single pointer that can be controlled from either the mouse or the touchpad. I've never seen a pc with two separate pointers.

 

[Nefrodite]

u can plug as many usbs as you want i keep my cordless on my left, corded on right

 

[tops2]

can't use the mouse at all with my left hand
=(

i had 2 mice plugged in my computer before, but they both just control the one mouse pointer on the screen. don't know if there's a way to get 2 mice pointers

 

[GermyBoy]

Originally posted by: Nefrodite
u can plug as many usbs as you want i keep my cordless on my left, corded on right

True, but I want a second pointer.

If I were to program it, how would I start? Anyone know?

Peace,
GermyBoy

 

[KevinMU1]

I can use my trackball almost as well with my left hand as my right, does that count?

As for two mouse pointers, good luck. I'm not sure you'd be able to implement that if your life depended on it, unless you had access to hardware level functions, not to mention probably Windows source code. Maybe it's not that bleak but it can't be easy.