Moving mouse cursor when emulator starts

[midget35]

Hi guys.

I know this has been brought up before but I don't recall a solution materialising - so if you can help now it is greatly appreciated!

I would like GameEx to move the mouse cursor to the extreme bottom left / right corner of the screen each time a game is launched. As it is - the cursor keeps popping up in the middle of the screen in emulators like vba and nestopia.

Is this possible? Has anyone written a hotkeys script or something similar to be run a second or so after the emulator is launched?

This has been bugging me for some months and - as I say - a solution would be very gratefully received.

many thanks.

[sbaby]

I use this autohotkey script for nulldc

sleep 3000

MouseMove, 1200, 800

[midget35]

  sbaby said:

I use this autohotkey script for nulldc

sleep 3000

MouseMove, 1200, 800

Thank you for this quick reply sbaby.

Forgive my uselessness, but where do i put these lines in the gameex cfg?

Or do I need to write a separate script and link to it from somewhere in the game ex configuration?

Again - many thanks!

[Brian Hoffman]

Use the launch before and after sections of the emu setup

http://home.cogeco.ca/~icorrupt/nomousy1.5.zip

Quote:

nomousy.exe - A small utility designed to hide and/or restrict mouse cursor movement.

- version 1.5 beta

Options: (all options are NOT case sensitive)

Hide the mouse cursor:

/hide

/h

-hide

-h

hide

h

Restrict the mouse to its' current location:

/freeze

/f

-freeze

-f

freeze

f

Cursor hiding options:

Hide all:

/all

-all

all

Selective hiding:

These following options (with - sign) should not have any spaces between them but may be in any order

UPARROW: -up

ARROW: -ar

IBEAM: -ib

CROSS: -cr

SIZENWSE: -nwse

SIZENESW: -nesw

SIZEWE: -we

SIZENS: -ns

WAIT: -wa

APPSTARTING: -as

ICON: -ic

HAND: -ha

SIZE: -si

SIZEALL: -sa

NO: -no

Restore mouse cursor:

To restore the cursor run nomousy.exe again (with or without options)

Examples:

- hide cursor but allow movement:

nomousy.exe /hide

- hide only ARROW and IBEAM and allow movement:

nomousy.exe -ar-ib

- restrict movement only

nomousy.exe -f

- hide cursor and restrict movement

nomousy.exe /f -h

- restrict movement and hide IBEAM only

nomousy.exe -freeze -ib

- restore cursor

nomousy.exe

[sbaby]

  midget35 said:

Or do I need to write a separate script and link to it from somewhere in the game ex configuration?

Yes, with this :

http://www.autohotkey.com/

In the game ex configuration use "AlsoLaunch" and link it

[midget35]

Sorry for the long delay in replying.

Brian - thank you very much foir your reply. I remember this solution from the earlier post but have always favoured the idea of moving the cursor out of sight rather than hiding it - after all, mouse control may still be needed for some games in some emulators.

sbaby - this was exactly what I was looking for. I've really been impressed by autohotkey and have already written several scripts to help with gameEx. Thank you for your patience in helping me grasp this!

In the next few days, I will refine and post a script for converting the 'TV' btn on the MCE remote control to a btn that launches and closes gameEx directly (as far as I'm aware - the Tv btn serves no purpose at present?). Would this be of any use to anyone??

Thanks to Brian and sbaby again!