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Does DirectInput support multi-mouses?

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Started by niexuchina November 27, 2006 05:55 AM

3 comments, last by niexuchina 17 years, 4 months ago

niexuchina

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November 27, 2006 05:55 AM

Can DirectInput distinguish more than one mouses on the same computer?

kafbuddy

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November 27, 2006 06:05 AM

directinput returns the sum of all mouses connected to the pc.
If you need the data of each mouse you need to do it with raw input.

Here is a link for more information:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/userinput/rawinput.asp

Raw input only works on windows xp and higher versions.
The documentation is very bad (i had a lot of troubles with it).

hope i could helped you.

KafBuddy

izua

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November 27, 2006 11:31 AM

i'm kind of curious (and offtopic, too :smile:)
what kind of application/game would require the use of several mouses?

davepermen

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November 27, 2006 11:47 AM

it's mice..

i can imagine tons of good uses of having multiple mice. anyone seen the multi-touchscreen video a while ago? if not, search for it on youtube, it should give some inspiration on whats doable with two, or more mice.

i'd love it for 3d editors like 3dsmax, and for dj'ing, too. in both cases, one mouse is not enough (but for djing it's not a problem, as i have finalscratch.. :D still, directly controlling two things in traktor, or ableton live would be nice.

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