Introduction
JoystickMouseTool allowing the mouse cursor to be controlled by a joystick. It emulates the three standard mouse buttons, extra mouse buttons, a mouse wheel and supports both relative and absolute positioning modes.
Requirements
- Windows95/NT/2000 or higher
- A joystick supported by Windows
The tool supports all programs using the standard windows functions for mouse input. It does not work with programs retrieving mouse data at a lower level.
Usage
After starting the program a small icon shows up in the task bar:
Either the normal joystick mouse icon indicating the tool beeing active
or a crossed joystick mouse icon indicating the tool beein in idle state
The tool switches to idle state automatically if the joystick is not connected or switched off. A left click on the icon will open the setup dialog, a double click will close it.
Configuration
After a right click on the tray icon the following options are available:
- Relative movement mode like a mouse:
- Moving speed can be adjusted via trackbar.
- Deadzone setting allows adjusting the range of the center position according to the joystick precision.
- Absolute mode like a graphic tablet
- Mouse wheel emulation
- The mouse wheel can be mapped to one of the joystick axes available
- Mouse wheel speed can be adjusted independently
- Extra mouse button emulation (if the joystick has more than 3 buttons)
- A drop-down box where one can select the joystick to use
- A drop-down box where one can select the joystick to use
- By assigning any joystick button as unlock button mouse movements and button presses will only be simulated when the unlock button is pressed
- Any of the simulated mouse buttons can be assigned to a certain joystick button using the drop-down fields at the bottom
- The remaining buttons should be pretty self-explaining