1 Mouse - 2 Cursors? Possible?

[shockbeta]

The click rotate and the such would be a little tricky to replicate, and you're now treading into dangerous waters. You could simulate mouse clicks easy, but when you want to click -> drag -> unclick... Not easily done I think. You could maybe force loss of focus set focus to top send click. And play with the focus window everytime you move. But I'm not sure if it would make the display go crazy. I guess if the focus/lose focus idea would work. you would have to remember where the mouses was at each focus/lose focus and make sure to set the cursor back to said position in between refocusing the screen. If something like that did not work you're then getting into injecting input, but I guess that isn't that bad as Autohotkey does it, so maybe there is a legitimate easy way to handle it. I'll have to think more on it. Sorry my post is probably all out of order and confusing to most. Just how I think

[jabowah]

The sad part that I just realized is that this is all doable in hardware, except for the split monitor issue. There are some "picture by picture" monitors out there in 24 and 27" that allow two inputs to be set "side by side" - but the 30" - no go.

I have two of dell's 2407fpw and the picture by picture mode isn't all that great. Out of the 5 inputs (vga/dvi/s-video/composite/component) you can only have dvi/vga on one side and the rest on the other and it shrinks the actual picture down.

So you could only have dvi shown on one side and then one from the other on the other side, you can't have dvi/vga shown at the same time, unless there is some work around that I don't know about.

But the picture shrinkage is pretty bad, looks like:

[Xzin]

Eww - that sucks.

I thought it was ACTUALLY side by side. And no DVI/VGA? What is that about?

What I need to do is swap out my current 30" ones for these:

http://www.radiforce.com/en/press/pd...ForceRS410.pdf

I don't even want to begin to think what thats going to cost. Medical monitors are stupid expensive.... but they can display two images from two inputs literally side by side. At full 1600 x 1280 resolution.

Short of going separate monitors (building a 10 monitor array), and going lower resolution, I don't know how else to cram all of these displays for the 10 Zins any closer together.

[jabowah]

It has dvi/vga, but you have to pick one. You can't have the picture in/by picture showing both vga and dvi inputs.

On the bright side I can watch TV/movies in the little corner in picture in picture mode

[Wilbur]

One thing you may not be quite so quick to consider, but probably should anyway...

Buy cheap 17" Widescreen Monitors, Rip them out of their frames, build a larger frame, mount, apply backlight, I guess this way you should be able to get monitors as close as possible to each other. Obviously, some other details would have to be worked out, but I'm sure it'd be possible, depending on how much spare time you have.

[Xzin]

Yep, thats one idea. I could even go LCD backlighting.

See: http://hackedgadgets.com/2007/02/18/...ed-conversion/

Not cheap but I have worked a lot with the Luxeons actually.

http://luxeon.com/products/luxeon/

Chinese companies make some compelling knock offs at about 50% less cost if you buy in bulk.

That is certainly an option for a DIY route. But I will be unable to use the 30" monitors as a single 25 megapixel desktop without some serious software modifications - I know it is POSSIBLE with Linux but its difficult to setup X to make it work that way. And there would still be bezels between each image.... something I really want to avoid.

If you really wanted to do this on the cheap though, I think that would be a great way to do it. Buy some with broken backlights and just hack em together.

[Xzin]

I think what I am going to do is just stick with 1 computer per Zin for right now. It's not exactly what I had in mind but going the hardware route is 100% rock solid, needs no further development/customization of WoW Maximizer, Autohotkey, Multibox or the dual mouse option. I lose a little flexibility but I completely eliminate any chance of running afoul of the EULA as literally everything will be hardware based. Plus, I can use the 30" array for normal computing and other things - rather than having a dedicated WoW setup that I will not want to use for anything else due to the bezels between each monitor.

The downsides of course are a much more expensive set of monitors and Vetras, more power use, less flexibility software wise, less accurate mousing broadcasting.

The only one that bothers me at all is the last one - the mice. But I can solve that with a workaround. Being able to broadcast more selectively with the mice would be a nice option though - it is impractical to have 12 mice on my desktop - but that said I only need to use 3 to control most all functions. Same with the keyboard - I can route pretty much everything through a single keyboard with the use of cascaded KVMs and multiple levels of Y-Mice per machine - for things like desktop administration. This will not work for PvP but makes it easier to make changes on a per machine basis. Prior testing indicates this to be a viable option that adds a negligible amount of latency to each keystroke. VNC or other programs could serve this same function in software at no cost with some other drawbacks (mostly speed).