question out of left field, bringing the mouse back to primary screen in windows xp?

[diat150]

make a long story short I have a rsview32 application that has 7 screens all running at the same time on a extended desktop. some of them are touchscreens but the problem is if i go to the last screen it takes forever to get back to the 1st screen because I have to keep rolling the mouse.

does anyone know of a shortcut to setup or something to make the mouse return to the primary monitor? thanks a million.

 

[Matthew Modar]

Quick google search turned up this utility. No experience with this myself. More info here.

 

[Dua Anjing]

On some mouse drivers you could set the mouse to "roll over" when it reached edge of screen.

 

[diat150]

Thanks, I may have to give that a shot, I actually read the study those guys that wrote the program did but they never said anything about the program. Still looking for other ideas in cas eit doesnt work.

 

[Gil47]

I am keen to know how you set up your PC for displaying extra screens on RSView 32, as I have been looking to extend the desktop on our project.

Here is a link about key board and mouse short cuts, that may, or may not work for you, or may only work with web browsers.

http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Shortcuts

 

[TConnolly]

I'm at home right now so I can't double check, but I seem to vaguely remember that there is a SetFocus command (or something like that) in RSView.

 

[Gil47]

I have a Function key, F10 set up on my project, that I have attached a global key, that takes me back to the main display, in case any screen fails to give us a path of return for any reason, this might be an option for you.

 

[diat150]

I have a Function key, F10 set up on my project, that I have attached a global key, that takes me back to the main display, in case any screen fails to give us a path of return for any reason, this might be an option for you.

can you expand on this a little bit?

honestly this is my first time using rsview32 and the project was already setup. I looked and looked but could not determine what they did to set it up on the extended desktop. I will try and look into it a little better.

 

[Gil47]

Hi diat150
Rather than try to describe it I have taken a screen shot to describe what I was thinking of.

 

[Lancie1]

Diat,

When I program each RSView screen, I always add at least one menu pushbutton somewhere on the screen. This button says "Return to Main Screen" or some such. Usually I wind up with 5 or 6 shortcut buttons to various other screens, but I make sure there is a quick way (1 click) to get back to the first and main screen.

 

[diat150]

Diat,

When I program each RSView screen, I always add at least one menu pushbutton somewhere on the screen. This button says "Return to Main Screen" or some such. Usually I wind up with 5 or 6 shortcut buttons to various other screens, but I make sure there is a quick way (1 click) to get back to the first and main screen.

thats a little different issue. this application has 7 screens running simultaneously across 7 monitors via extended desktop. 6 of them are fixed touchscreens and the other uses a mouse, and can be changed to other screens. either way, i was able to get it done using a similiar method as what the guy above described in rsview.

 

[diat150]

I am keen to know how you set up your PC for displaying extra screens on RSView 32, as I have been looking to extend the desktop on our project.

Here is a link about key board and mouse short cuts, that may, or may not work for you, or may only work with web browsers.

http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Shortcuts

Ok, I figured out how they did it. here is a screen shot.

as you can see in this example, the screens are turned off, because this is a separate computer that only has one monitor. the other pc that has the 7 monitors has all of these enabled.

 

[Lancie1]

...6 of them are fixed touchscreens and the other uses a mouse, and can be changed to other screens.

Just because there are 7 screens, and 6 are "fixed", DOES NOT mean that a button cannot be addded on 6 of the screens to return FOCUS to the main screen from WHEREVER the mouse happens to be....

 

[diat150]

your original post did not reflect what you just said. instead though, dont you agree that hitting f1 on the keyboard is a much better solution than putting a button on each screen?