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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: FloLob on June 25, 2004, 02:32:37 pm
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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.)
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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
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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 (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 :( )
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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.
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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
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Thx for your replies.
I will get a new metalpanel and try it again.
How could one be that stupid ..... :-\
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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...