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I was once trying to point at a book on a desk with my
mouse. Seeing as the pointer failed to travel outside the
screen, it was not helpful.
So, bringing to bear the industrial might of NMRM Co, I
have come up with a scheme.
One database of locations and orientation, and one
database for
all the mice in the area.
In this way, I can activate the software by pressing the
left
key (widdershins three times), my pointer can now
traverse
the screens in the room to point at needed objects.
The two cursors thumb-wrestling game has gone on the
back-burner due to too make cases of thumb whiplash.
Technical support medieval stylee
https://www.youtube...watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ
Surprisingly funny Norwegian skit [not_morrison_rm, Apr 23 2018]
[link]
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Well, if your computer mouse-motion could also control an
external laser pointer, that might be one way to achieve
between-monitor pointing. |
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Why bother with screens? Why not use camera and
projection technology to have a mouse pointer
everywhere? |
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I double clicked my pen and now the
ballpoint is pulled in again. What
should I do now? |
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^ You could do worse than follow the advice on the
Technical Support video. See link. |
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I did once see a demo of a rather neat UI which gave you (thanks to a headset-mounted display) an augmented reality view of your monitor and the space around. So, you could see the computer monitor as normal, but could also move the cursor off the screen and see it floating in the space around the screen. You could drag windows off your monitor and leave them floating in mid-air. Because of the constraints of the system, the space around the screen was lower-res than the screen, so you'd have to drag windows back onto the screen to view them properly. |
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I'm not sure what can be done with a hopping monitor. But a
mouse pointer? Now that is something entirely different. |
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Might I suggest a highly trained mouse and a touch screen monitor. Command operations would be by finger waving. A pinky wave gives the wanted hopping function. |
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On second thoughts, mice have poor eyesight so maybe a little black and white commanding cane. |
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^ Not entirely sure it's humane to velcro a mouse (of the
organic variety, eats cheese, goes squeak etc) on the end
of a long stick? |
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Just heard Memex are going to add on a extensible
Bakelite finger-on-a-stick, Angleton would have been in
pointer heaven. |
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While I am here, Strossy has more self-control than I do.
At no point in the Merchant Princes series does anyone
say "Eigenstate quite categorically that water is wet" or
something like that. |
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This idea reminded me of a Rich Tennant "The 5th Wave" cartoon from a Dummies book (actually, the only one of those I remember), where a student's cursor has come off the screen and is holding another student up against the wall, and the teacher is asking for that student to be put down and for cursors to remain on screens. Unfortunately, after extensive searching, I don't think it's available online anywhere. Does anybody remember it? It probably would have been in a Mac-related Dummies book from the 1990s. |
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