Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!cloos From: cloos@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (James H. Cloos Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Mouse cord nuisance from lap (was Re: Monitors: What Next?) Message-ID: <6687@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Date: 27 Oct 88 00:44:14 GMT References: <3549@phri.UUCP> <3954@encore.UUCP> <7614@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <3564@phri.UUCP> <7620@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1893@puff.cs.wisc.edu> Reply-To: cloos@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (James H. Cloos Jr.) Organization: Cornell Computer Services, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 Lines: 32 In article <1893@puff.cs.wisc.edu> ebert@puff.WISC.EDU (Robert Ebert) writes: |In article <7620@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> chekmate@athena.mit.edu (Adam Kao) writes: |>In article <3564@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes: |>> All the graphics tablets I've seen (GTCO, Summagraphics, etc) have |>>cords running to the stylus/puck/mouse in addition to cords running to the |>>tablet. Just makes it worse, not better. |>>-- |>Sorry, my mistake. I was thinking of things like the Koala Pad, which is |>not a graphics tablet but is certainly cheap and familiar. I've seen |>versions that are bigger and have more resolution, too. | |One other, unmentioned problem with putting the sensor in the mouse pad and |not in the mouse -- picking it up. I can pick up my mouse, move it, put it |down, etc. all without moving the cursor. Graphics tablets/koala pads are |sensitive to position relative to the pad, not movement of the mouse. However, just because current graphic tablets are sensitive to position relative to the pad as opposed to movement of the mouse, it is not required. The 'intelligent mose pad/dumb mouse' combo earlier described could be designed. Concerning mose movement, only software changes are needed. The only limiting factor I can think of would be how to sense button-down events. Perhaps a battery run circut in the mouse w/ an infra-red transmitter combined w/ a i-r receiver someplace on the mat would work. Maybe. -JimC -- batcomputer!cloos@cornell.UUCP |James H. Cloos, Jr.|#include cloos@batcomputer.tn.cornell.EDU|B7 Upson, Cornell U|#include cloos@tcgould.tn.cornell.EDU |Ithaca, NY 14853 |"Entropy isn't what cloos@crnlthry.BITNET | +1 607 272 4519 | it used to be." a.k.a. jhc@vax5.ccs.cornell.EDU or jhc@crnlvax5.BITNET (N.B. All mail should be sent to me @vax5, especially after 1-Nov-88)