I have connected 2 mice to PC and I wish one mouse to work as regular mouse and capture second mouse exclusively.
First I was trying DirectInput. It showed 2 devices with word mouse in InstanceName. But only one device had DeviceType.Mouse and it was only really working device. When I was acquiring it was blocking both mice.
Second I decided to create driver. I downloaded WinDDK. There is Mouse Filter driver sample. I was able to compile it. But I am not driver programmer. It is complex for me to understand but it has some code related to PS/2 mouse. All my mice are USB.
It should be installed with .INF file. I prefer it be dynamically loaded.
I am not quite sure that it is right direction. I do it for my hobbyist robotic project. I wish PC take some information from mouse as sensor. I think there must be existing similar projects or solutions.
I have linux pc on my table as well. May be better to attach mouse to linux and parse
/dev/input/mouse0
/dev/input/mouse1
/dev/input/mouse2
looks like sudo cat /dev/input/mouse1 - gives some data but does not block device from clicks and movements.
I hope simple solution already exists
Cheers Max
