inverting the mouse movement

[mygraneboy webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

here the situation a presentation has been created to run on a displaay that is turned on its size basically creating a portrait view of the monitor instead of landscape (1024,768)

of course using a mouse now is completly backwards (left and right move up and down and up and down move left and right

does anyone know how i can invert the mouse location, since there are buttons etc on the screen i cant just use a sprite as a cursor sincel clicking will produce no result

any ideas or direction appreciated

[Andrew Morton]

So, you're saying you physically turn the monitor 90 degrees, resulting in the
mouse movement being wrong for the OS too? In that case, some mouse drivers (on
Windows, anyway) will let you change the direction the mouse works. I think the
MS Intellimouse driver does.
[url]http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/results.aspx?productID=B4FA52ED-793D-433F-8D66-FE50FA55C8A2&freetext=&DisplayLang=en[/url]

Well, it looks like that driver is available for Mac as well.

* Warning: I have read that Bad Things can happen if you uninstall Logitech
mouse/keyboard drivers.* Bad Things may extend to not being able to boot
Windows.

Andrew Morton

[Robert Tweed]

"Andrew Morton" <akm@in-press.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
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> So, you're saying you physically turn the monitor 90 degrees, resulting in

the

> mouse movement being wrong for the OS too? In that case, some mouse

drivers (on

> Windows, anyway) will let you change the direction the mouse works. I

think the

> MS Intellimouse driver does.

IIRC, some video drivers support inverted monitors as well. You can even get
some LCD displays that can hot switch between landscape and portrait modes.
Haven't kept up to date with this stuff though, so I can't point you to any
specific manufacturers.

Of course, if this is just for a one-off presentation running as a full
screen projector then the setMouse Xtra or BuddyAPI will do a reasonably
good job, should none of the hardware-linked options be possible.

- Robert

[mygraneboy webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

thanks andrew

i figured a lingo fix might not be the answer here, they are using a trackball instead of a mouse but your info has been very helpful

thanks

[mygraneboy webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

what could i do with buddy api?

[Robert Tweed]

"mygraneboy" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> what could i do with buddy api?

You can reset the mouse position to an arbitrary location. So on
prepareFrame you just check how far the mouse has moved since the last
frame, swap the x and y, and set the mouse to the new position. You will
need a property to keep track of the "virtual" mouse position so that it
doesn't move twice. You may also get an occasional flicker of the mouse
moving the wrong way, so it isn't perfect, but it's all you can do without
an updated hardware driver of some sort.

- Robert

[mygraneboy webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

thanks for the feedback however the results are really jerky with a lot of flicker

thanks any way

[Robert Tweed]

"mygraneboy" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> thanks for the feedback however the results are really jerky with a lot of

flicker

Have you tried setting the tempo higher? Remember that the screen updates at
about 70Hz, and the mouse driver is synced to the monitor: However, the
default tempo is only 30fps. If you set it higher you will get less flicker,
although as I said before, it will never be perfect.

You could also try hiding the hardware mouse cursor and using a custom
graphic cursor, which will probably look better.

- Robert