Use two mouse in labview

[mikhay]

Hi,

I want to monitor my robot path by use of two mouse,in vertical and horizontal movements. 

Is there a way to use two mouse in labview and use their information? I know some applications that you use some mice in one computer (Like glovepie) but i dont know how can i use them in labview.   

[hooovahh]

Okay for this to work the first thing you'll need to do is convince Windows that there is two mice.  By default if you plug in two mice into Windows, they both will control the same cursor.  I'm guessing to do what you want you'll need two cursors (but I'm not sure).

 

If you look at the Initialize Mouse on the pallet you'll see that there is a constant on the block diagram which is the "DeviceIndex" and is set to 0.  I'm guessing you can make a copy of that VI, where that constant is a control input, and you can choose which mouse to initialize.  But as I mentioned before I suspect that this will only work once Windows has two cursors but you might get lucky and it might not need that.

[shoneill]

I don't think this will work.

 

I think Windows automatically sets all mice connected to control the same cursor.  I am unaware of a way (Aside from programming USB directly) to get the information from eachindividually into LabVIEW.  But hey, maybe (in fact, almost certainly) someone knows more than me.

[Mark Balla]

I came across this in my Google search last week but haven't investigated it any further.

 

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/teamplayer-use-multiple-keyboard-and-mice-on-one-system/

 

https://dicolab.com/products/teamplayer/

 

Multi-user collaboration tool

 

Software that enables multiple users working in the same digital environment. All participants can synchronously interact and control applications and content running there.

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[shoneill]

I thought of something like Teamviewer before but I'm not sure if there's any way to query the mouse pointers individually from software or not (as opposed to the OS handling two different pointers transparently).

[Phillip Brooks]

Hi,

I want to monitor my robot path by use of two mouse,in vertical and horizontal movements. 

Is there a way to use two mouse in labview and use their information? I know some applications that you use some mice in one computer (Like glovepie) but i dont know how can i use them in labview.   

 

Sounds like a perfect use for a joystick.

 

LabVIEW supports a joystick.