Re: [Audyssey] Limiting physical mouse movement to only horizontal or vertical axes

2011-01-04 Thread Jeremy Kaldobsky
If no such utilities exist, and others think this would be useful, I wouldn't have any trouble making a program to do this. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your

Re: [Audyssey] Limiting physical mouse movement to only horizontal or vertical axes

2011-01-04 Thread Thomas Ward
Hi Jacob, I'm not quite sure what you are asking, or to be more precise what the application here would be. If you were doing some game programming, for example, all you would have to do is simply check for the x or y axis and ignore the other possible axis.However, if you are talking about

Re: [Audyssey] Limiting physical mouse movement to only horizontal or vertical axes

2011-01-04 Thread Jacob Kruger
Message - From: Thomas Ward thomasward1...@gmail.com To: Gamers Discussion list gamers@audyssey.org Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 10:14 PM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Limiting physical mouse movement to only horizontal or vertical axes Hi Jacob, I'm not quite sure what you are asking

Re: [Audyssey] Limiting physical mouse movement to only horizontal or vertical axes

2011-01-04 Thread Jeremy Kaldobsky
I don't think there would be any problems. I've made similar applications that alter the mouse's behavior in windows. The only difficult issue would be telling the application that you wanted to switch to a different direction. Intercepting the general key presses in windows would be tricky

Re: [Audyssey] Limiting physical mouse movement to only horizontal or vertical axes

2011-01-04 Thread Phil Vlasak
: [Audyssey] Limiting physical mouse movement to only horizontal or vertical axes Hi Jacob, I'm not quite sure what you are asking, or to be more precise what the application here would be. If you were doing some game programming, for example, all you would have to do is simply check for the x

Re: [Audyssey] Limiting physical mouse movement to only horizontal or vertical axes

2011-01-04 Thread Jeremy Kaldobsky
Phil is exactly right. Of course the same idea could also allow the mouse to automatically lock into the diagonal directions also. Up+left, Down+left, Up+right, and Down+right. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to

[Audyssey] Limiting physical mouse movement to only horizontal or vertical axes

2011-01-03 Thread Jacob Kruger
Little off-topic, but just thinking that it might be nice sometimes to make use of a physical mouse, but then maybe limit it's cursor movement/control to only horizontal, vertical, or maybe diagonal axes, so that, for example in something like audio quake, I might be able to move forward and