Mouse creep during compile

Anyone have an idea why my mouse tends to creep towards the top-left corner of the screen during VS compilation? (Seems to be "going home" to coordinates 0,0...)

Isn't it an affect of video cards?  Has anyone else dealt with or witnessed this nuisance or am I the lucky sole winner?

Gratias!

EDIT: you know, it's not just during compile, it also can happen when running debug through the IDE. Is this a VS related oddity or not?

Matthew van Eerde said:

Is it an optical mouse?  Is there a hair in the photoreceptor?

AHA...

optical = true;

if(isHair) this.IDontSeeOneButWillBewareThanks(Matthew);

JohnAskew said:

Matthew van Eerde said:

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AHA...

optical = true;

if(isHair) this.IDontSeeOneButWillBewareThanks(Matthew);

I only have noticed that problem with wireless mice.  It seems like the computer gets too busy with compilation to process the inputs from the USB wireless dongle.

Matthew van Eerde said:

Is it an optical mouse?  Is there a hair in the photoreceptor?

Why do optical mice have holes where the sensor/emitter is? Why can't they have a solid base?

Matthew van Eerde said:

Is it an optical mouse?  Is there a hair in the photoreceptor?

A hair in the receptor wouldn't explain why it only happens during VS compile/debug.

Bas said:

Matthew van Eerde said:

*snip*

A hair in the receptor wouldn't explain why it only happens during VS compile/debug.

Nor the "pilgrimage to the Source" of coordinates 0,0  -- like a moth to a flame, albeit a slow moth...

EDIT: Well, actually, the direction could be from one hairy vector...

EDIT: The 'compile/debug' factor may be due to my erstwhile stilling the mouse and lifting my hand off of it - a fanciful habit I've picked up, apparently -

EDIT: Hmm. I closed an opened Crystal report and the magical motility is unreproducible...

EDIT: Well it's back again and this time no Crystal report is open nor was I compiling/debugging...   video card? I'm running 2 monitors... and this happens on the secondary monitor. I haven't tried to find it on the primary... I'm clueless.

JohnAskew said:

Bas said:

*snip*

Nor the "pilgrimage to the Source" of coordinates 0,0  -- like a moth to a flame, albeit a slow moth...

EDIT: Well, actually, the direction could be from one hairy vector...

EDIT: The 'compile/debug' factor may be due to my erstwhile stilling the mouse and lifting my hand off of it - a fanciful habit I've picked up, apparently -

EDIT: Hmm. I closed an opened Crystal report and the magical motility is unreproducible...

EDIT: Well it's back again and this time no Crystal report is open nor was I compiling/debugging...   video card? I'm running 2 monitors... and this happens on the secondary monitor. I haven't tried to find it on the primary... I'm clueless.

Ah well, if the Mouse is seeing crystal reports it's probably just trying to run away.

Herbie

Let me take a guess John. You have a left-handed mouse Am I right?

Minh said:

Let me take a guess John. You have a left-handed mouse Am I right?

A sinister mouse, but not left-handed --

JohnAskew said:

Minh said:

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A sinister mouse, but not left-handed --

Dang! I had a chance to astonish, if not with my expertise, then with my confidence.

But I've seen the mouse creep too. i do have a left-handed mouse, and found that the tension in the chord physically pulls the mouse towards (0,0).  The tension in the chord whips the mouse left-ward and up-ward (0,0)

Rejigging the chord, usually fixes it for me.

Minh said:

JohnAskew said:

*snip*

Dang! I had a chance to astonish, if not with my expertise, then with my confidence.

 

But I've seen the mouse creep too. i do have a left-handed mouse, and found that the tension in the chord physically pulls the mouse towards (0,0).  The tension in the chord whips the mouse left-ward and up-ward (0,0)

 

Rejigging the chord, usually fixes it for me.

 

Dom your eyes - I think you've got it. Really.      I feel like the guy on a call for technical support who hadn't plugged in his router... mrph!

blowdart said:

Minh said:

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Left handed? It all becomes so clear.

I actually am right-handed. Bat right, throw right, kick right. Although my left leg isn't entirely useless. I can feign with it. Sometimes you'll see me fake left, fake right, AND go left.

I do use a right-handed mouse, too. Depending on the carpal tunnel.

Minh said:

blowdart said:

*snip*

I actually am right-handed. Bat right, throw right, kick right. Although my left leg isn't entirely useless. I can feign with it. Sometimes you'll see me fake left, fake right, AND go left.

I do use a right-handed mouse, too. Depending on the carpal tunnel.

I read somewhere that everyone is right-handed by default, and that left-handedness is an aberration, where the brain's development is forced to adapt to a defect encountered during in embryonic growth.

Hence,  left-handed == brain-damaged

Minh said:

blowdart said:

*snip*

I actually am right-handed. Bat right, throw right, kick right. Although my left leg isn't entirely useless. I can feign with it. Sometimes you'll see me fake left, fake right, AND go left.

I do use a right-handed mouse, too. Depending on the carpal tunnel.

I've heard it said that you "mouse like a girl" ...

JohnAskew said:

Minh said:

*snip*

I've heard it said that you "mouse like a girl" ...

Oh yeah?... I might mouse like a girl... ahhh... I just want an excuse to post this video

Minh said:

JohnAskew said:

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Oh yeah?... I might mouse like a girl... ahhh... I just want an excuse to post this video

Nice goal Minh.