Tracking mouse movement at a resolution greater than monitor resolution

pasta_paul

Problem I'm using a C# application to record keyboard and mouse movement, processing that movement and sending serial data out to a micro-controller that interpreters that data and moves a set of servos. In the past I had created a box or image that was the resolution(number of steps) my servos were capable of, clipped the mouse to that box or image, and processed where the cursor was in that box and sent data to my servos to move to that...

Originally asked by Jeramy on Stack Exchange (stackoverflow) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

My initial purposed solution did the trick. On trackingEnabled I center the mouse and check how much it has moved every 100ms, after that I recenter it and send the data to my controller. using System; using System.Timers; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; using PIC18F_Servo_Control_V2; namespace FSI_Grid1 { public partial class Form1 : Form { TabControl LeftControlTab; System.Timers.Timer myTimer; public delegate void UpdateStatusBarDelegate(); TabPage myTabPage; Grid myGrid; serialConnection myConnection; int timerDelay = 100; int initialX, initialY,...

Full answer by Jeramy: https://stackoverflow.stackexchange.com/a/17397033 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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