TheWP
03-08-2009, 11:57
Well, I couldn't get VNC working and Remote Desktop won't let me see the desktop I'm already logged into (in XP Pro anyways) - it would only let me log in as a different user and get my own desktop... So I made a program to control the mouse on my XP Pro machine. This program, although not tested, should also work on other versions of windows. (as long as you have the visual basic runtimes) I built this program so I could control my mouse while watching Movies/TV on my desktop computer without the need to use a mouse.
I've attached some screenshots below... The red looking one is what you'd run on your other account you've logged into for remote desktop. (I just created a new administrator user called "Remote") the other small program runs as a tray icon on the desktop you want to control. Basically the red one converts your stylus coordinates on the Q5 and saves them in a text document located at c:\mousecoord.txt. The other pogram recieves those coordinates out of the text document and converts them into mouse coordinates for whatever screen resolution your running at the time to move your mouse around the screen. As you can see, there are right, left and double click buttons. So all I do is run the MouseMover on my XP machine and run MouseGrabber on my Remote Desktop I logged into on my Cowon.
Remember: You must have write access to c:\mousecoord.txt in order for this to work - hence the administrator account I made. You do not need to create this file. It will automatically be created.
Remember (#2): I hope people don't make this mistake - but both programs are for WINDOWS... The reason you can run it on the Cowon is because of Remote Desktop.
Remember (#3): In order to connect to your desktop box from your cowon using Remote Desktop Client (available in other posts), you need to enable "Allow users to connect remotely to this computer" in Control Panel ---> System, under the Remote tab.
I've also included the source code for this project (TheWP_MouseMover_Source.zip) . It is written in Visual Basic 6.
I've attached some screenshots below... The red looking one is what you'd run on your other account you've logged into for remote desktop. (I just created a new administrator user called "Remote") the other small program runs as a tray icon on the desktop you want to control. Basically the red one converts your stylus coordinates on the Q5 and saves them in a text document located at c:\mousecoord.txt. The other pogram recieves those coordinates out of the text document and converts them into mouse coordinates for whatever screen resolution your running at the time to move your mouse around the screen. As you can see, there are right, left and double click buttons. So all I do is run the MouseMover on my XP machine and run MouseGrabber on my Remote Desktop I logged into on my Cowon.
Remember: You must have write access to c:\mousecoord.txt in order for this to work - hence the administrator account I made. You do not need to create this file. It will automatically be created.
Remember (#2): I hope people don't make this mistake - but both programs are for WINDOWS... The reason you can run it on the Cowon is because of Remote Desktop.
Remember (#3): In order to connect to your desktop box from your cowon using Remote Desktop Client (available in other posts), you need to enable "Allow users to connect remotely to this computer" in Control Panel ---> System, under the Remote tab.
I've also included the source code for this project (TheWP_MouseMover_Source.zip) . It is written in Visual Basic 6.