Cursor placement

[Bill Cottman]

Sometimes I "lose" the cursor during a performance...

How can I cause the cursor to appear at a position (x,y) on my laptop screen when I press the X key?

Thanks.

[nick]

you could try an applescript using http://www.hamsoftengineering.com/codeSharing/MouseTools/MouseTools.html

[nZo]

hoops your link seem bad nick ;o)

http://www.hamsoftengineering.com/codeSharing/MouseTools/MouseTools.html

[nick]

came up with a better way.

Using robot class in Processing you can move the mouse around, so here is an app built in processing that will recieve an osc message and move the mouse to the co-ordinates sent.

Have included an isadora file that sends the right message.

02530c-mousemover.zip

[Skulpture]

I used to use this wen VJing in a dark club - bot sue if it still works on 10.8/10.9 mac OS though....

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/17513/mouse-locator

[Bill Cottman]

@Skulpture: Thanks

[primaldivine]

Very nice MouseMover, thanks. :)

[m_theater]

i made good experiences with a wacom tablet, mapping the mouse area only to the control screen

it is a hardware only solution but this way you can be sure to never push your cursor in the picture

and with a pen you can pick your buttons quite precisely (like the old cad stations did it, a printout of your control screen attached to the tablet…