Two friends must use a mouse turned 180. Is there software to compensate?

[space-time]

martin wrote:
...The girls have their brains' use-a-mouse circuit in some sort of stereo isomer, flipped from how most people use a mouse or trackpad.
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never heard of this one before. Both girls? are they twins?

so here is the question? do they more LEFT when the mouse should go RIGHT and vice versa?

what about UP/DOWN, is that also flipped?

BTW, I thought about a mirror as suggested above, but that makes reading more difficult.

[testcase]

Back in Parochial School days, a Nun would "solve" this problem with a good smack upside the head.


Straightened many a kid right out.......:damnyou:

[mikebw]

space-time wrote:
[quote=martin]
...The girls have their brains' use-a-mouse circuit in some sort of stereo isomer, flipped from how most people use a mouse or trackpad.
...

never heard of this one before. Both girls? are they twins?

so here is the question? do they more LEFT when the mouse should go RIGHT and vice versa?

what about UP/DOWN, is that also flipped?

BTW, I thought about a mirror as suggested above, but that makes reading more difficult.
At this point I think learning how to read backwards would be easier.

[space-time]

martin wrote:
...The girls have their brains' use-a-mouse circuit in some sort of stereo isomer, flipped from how most people use a mouse or trackpad.
Yeah, maybe I did not explain it so well at 4:30 a.m.

Thinking some more about it, sounds like they are ready for iPads, just skip OS X and go straight to iOS

[davester]

martin wrote:
Not about the cord, but about their 3-D interaction with a mouse/trackpad. The girls have their brains' use-a-mouse circuit in some sort of stereo isomer, flipped from how most people use a mouse or trackpad.
Yeah, maybe I did not explain it so well at 4:30 a.m.

That explains how either they are having you on or you are having us on.

[ztirffritz]

I'm still not sure I understand why they're using a mouse backwards. I do have a guy who had to learn how to use a mouse on the left side of his keyboard because he shared it with a lefty. The lefty is long gone, but he won't move the mouse. It doesn't really matter I guess, but it is always odd when I sit at his machine to work on it.

[MGS_forgot_password]

or a fix for a trackpad that would effect the same result.

Buy an external trackpad, rotate 180 degrees.

[kj4btkljv]

Maybe USB Overdrive would do the trick? Or, contact the developer first, and ask him/her?

http://www.usboverdrive.com/USBOverdrive/News.html

Edit: According to a post/answer here: http://superuser.com/questions/226342/mo...n-mac-os-x, it can be done in USB Overdrive, in the advanced settings. But, I don't have the software, so I can't verify for sure.

Jeff

[GGD]

ztirffritz wrote:
I'm still not sure I understand why they're using a mouse backwards.

I'm still not understanding IF they're using a mouse backwards, his description of how they are holding it, is the proper orientation for a corded mouse, with the cord coming out the top.

[mikebw]

You could also have them hold the mouse upside down and track on the bottom side of the desk; that would keep the left-right movement correct while allowing the cord to run towards the wrist.