RE: Re: Jog Dial - where can I buy ?

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

>Thinking about it I don't know if you can have two mice connected to
the
>same PC and operating independently i.e. one is standard windows UI
mouse
>the other is used by a custom app...
>
>

I routinely have two mice connected to the same PC, and operating
independently, but not quite in the way you describe here.. Rather both
mice
are operating the same windows mouse pointer... In all cases, at least one
of the mice is a USB device, - I have no idea if it is possible to install
2
serial or PS2 mice under windows, but as you say, it should be perfectly
feasible to write a COM port driver to use a standard serial mouse as a
custom serial input device for a specific application, whilst still having
another mouse connected to another port for normal windows use... - you'd
have to make sure that the standard windows mouse driver didn't detect and
attempt to drive your extra mouse though, which probably rules out all
except serial mice? (I'm just thinking aloud here...)

Paul G.

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