IS there a way to use 2 mouses in win2k (stupid but i wanna know)

[MortaniuS]

IS there a way to use 2 mouses in win2k? I mean have 2 active independant mouses working at once? The reason im asking is i wanna have 2 people working on a single computer that has a dual head setup.

 

[Vincent]

You can use two mice but you can only have one mouse pointer. The two mice will move the same mouse pointer.

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[MortaniuS]

Ahh ok, i want 2 mouse pointers , is it possible?

 

[lowtech1]

Yes you can have 2 mice & pointers, but you have to write your own driver.

 

[crt1530]

<< You can use two mice but you can only have one mouse pointer. >>




<< Ahh ok, i want 2 mouse pointers , is it possible? >>


What part of &quot;NO&quot; don't you understand?

 

[crt1530]

<< Yes you can have 2 mice &amp; pointers, but you have to write your own driver. >>


HAHA...good one.

 

[MortaniuS]

Heh. Ok whatever ;-)

 

[VBboy]

<< Yes you can have 2 mice &amp; pointers, but you have to write your own driver. >>

Hmm, maybe...

You could also write a utility which would &quot;emulate&quot; that second mouse pointer. In order to tell your program to start tracking the second mouse, you would press and hold the <CTRL> key, for example. Then, when you move the mouse (any mouse, for that matter), your program will move the second pointer, accordingly.

It's possible to write this utility in VB, VC++ and of course in C.
However, it would probably be a waste of time

 

[uncouth]

Double-weilding is strickly forbidden.

 

[joohang]

Build a second Duron machine. Problem solved at a very effective cost.

 

[gsaldivar]

&quot;...i wanna have 2 people working on a single computer that has a dual head setup...&quot;

Maybe you're trying to solve the wrong problem here.

Can you explain *why* it is necessary to have 2 people working with separate mice, and monitors, on the same CPU??

 

[mesonw]

I thought even Win98 was supposed to support 2 keyboards, 2 mice and 2 monitors. Dunno how you activate it/set it up though.

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