vmiguel
28-05-2007, 03:21 PM
A new driver, developed by TEKSOFT (www.teksoftco.com), named BlueMouse, allows any bluetooth mouse to operate on a bt enabled PPC.
http://www.pocketpt.net/forum/uploads/1139968002/gallery_4707_6_15144.jpg
The control panel:
http://www.teksoftco.com/products/bluemouse/large/01.jpg
First, the user selects wich button to assign a action, choosing from left, middle, right buttons, or scrool wheel. And then, the action, witch can be choosen from a list of 17 possible actions, including left click, middle click or right click, horizontal or vertical scrooling, open an app, close the active app, Alt-Tab to the next open app, etc.
It's also possible to choose different colors, sizes and shapes for the pointer. And the pointer speed, related to the mouse movement.
The setup is quite easy, the driver uses few resources, being very light.
If the PPC tunrs off, when the user turns it back on, the mouse is ready to use, without any problem.
Using a PPC for some time, with a mouse, makes it much easier than using the stylus.
In this version 1.0, it works only with Microsoft bt stack, but in future versions, it's expected to support others.
In a more demanding situations, like long scrools on Excel or Word, a few image artifacts might appear, but that problem is also expected to be fixed on the next version.
For less than 15€, everybody that already owns a bt mouse can use it on the PPC, making it a better investment.
If you're in the market for such a solution, I know only another one: Stowaway. But their software only works with their mouse, so, anybody that already have a bt mouse would have to buy a second one... not very good.
And if you buy a mouse and BlueMouse, it can cost bellow 60€, and Stowaway is more than 100€...
http://www.pocketpt.net/forum/uploads/1139968002/gallery_4707_6_15144.jpg
The control panel:
http://www.teksoftco.com/products/bluemouse/large/01.jpg
First, the user selects wich button to assign a action, choosing from left, middle, right buttons, or scrool wheel. And then, the action, witch can be choosen from a list of 17 possible actions, including left click, middle click or right click, horizontal or vertical scrooling, open an app, close the active app, Alt-Tab to the next open app, etc.
It's also possible to choose different colors, sizes and shapes for the pointer. And the pointer speed, related to the mouse movement.
The setup is quite easy, the driver uses few resources, being very light.
If the PPC tunrs off, when the user turns it back on, the mouse is ready to use, without any problem.
Using a PPC for some time, with a mouse, makes it much easier than using the stylus.
In this version 1.0, it works only with Microsoft bt stack, but in future versions, it's expected to support others.
In a more demanding situations, like long scrools on Excel or Word, a few image artifacts might appear, but that problem is also expected to be fixed on the next version.
For less than 15€, everybody that already owns a bt mouse can use it on the PPC, making it a better investment.
If you're in the market for such a solution, I know only another one: Stowaway. But their software only works with their mouse, so, anybody that already have a bt mouse would have to buy a second one... not very good.
And if you buy a mouse and BlueMouse, it can cost bellow 60€, and Stowaway is more than 100€...