Tool to "turn" trackball axis ???

[FloLob]

I just installed the ultimarc trackball into my metal
controlpanel. I had to turn the trackball 45 degrees for the installation, because of lacking space. And now ..... guess what ... the mousecursor moves diagonally.

Is there a tool or something that "turns" the mouseaxis 45 degrees back to normal ?



(Sorry for my bad english. But I haven't learned in school how to talk about trackballs.)

[_Iz-]

I just installed the ultimarc trackball into my metal
controlpanel. I had to turn the trackball 45 degrees for the installation, because of lacking space. And now ..... guess what ... the mousecursor moves diagonally.

Is there a tool or something that "turns" the mouseaxis 45 degrees back to normal ?



(Sorry for my bad english. But I haven't learned in school how to talk about trackballs.)

Nope, if you'd just rotated it 90

[REBIRTH]

It is an epidemic!  There was just this post on the same subject last week...  

http://www.arcadecontrols.org/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=20482;start=msg165518#msg165518

It is easy to install it at an angle by mistake, actually looks like you did this on purpose (not realizing the results though   )

[GamingGreg]

Sorry Man, I don't know of any hardware or software to fix that.   If you turned it by 90 or 180 degrees, then you'd have some options, but not here.  

[vputz]

Agreed with the above.  The trackball has two sensors, one vertical, one horizontal, so there's no hardware way to fix the problem.  Software...maybe.  You'd have to use a clever driver to mux the two inputs together and rotate.  It could be done, but you'd need a very clever mouse driver.

Some like that do exist, though I'm not sure they'd be compatible with your trackball.  May be worth looking at.

-->VPutz

[FloLob]

Thx for your replies.
I will get a new metalpanel and try it again.

How could one be that stupid .....  

[Minwah]

I just replied to this at MAMEWorld...but:

I think there is a setting somewhere in Accessability Options for this...basically for people who have trouble moving the mouse exactly forward/backward etc.  I don't know if will allow the amount of adjustment you need, but definately have a look before you make a new panel...