Mouse creep during compile | The Coffeehouse

JohnAskew
9 girl in pink sweater

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
AKA Maurits

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

JohnAskew
9 girl in pink sweater

In reply to Matthew van Eerde

#Jul 7th @ 8:21 AM

AHA...

optical = true;

if(isHair) this.IDontSeeOneButWillBewareThanks(Matthew);

JeremyJ
The pioneers would be appalled!

In reply to JohnAskew

#Jul 7th @ 8:34 AM

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.

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to Matthew van Eerde

#Jul 7th @ 8:21 AM

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

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

In reply to Matthew van Eerde

#Jul 7th @ 8:21 AM

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

JohnAskew
9 girl in pink sweater

In reply to Bas

#Jul 7th @ 9:01 AM

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.

Dr Herbie
Horses for courses

In reply to JohnAskew

#Jul 7th @ 9:11 AM

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

Herbie

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

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

JohnAskew
9 girl in pink sweater

In reply to Minh

#Jul 7th @ 11:00 AM

A sinister mouse, but not left-handed -- Perplexed

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

In reply to JohnAskew

#Jul 7th @ 11:49 AM

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.

JohnAskew
9 girl in pink sweater

In reply to Minh

#Jul 7th @ 11:55 AM

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
Peek-a-boo

In reply to Minh

#Jul 7th @ 11:55 AM

Left handed? It all becomes so clear.

Minh
WOOH! WOOH!

In reply to blowdart

#Jul 7th @ 1:52 PM

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.

elmer
I'm on my very last life.

In reply to Minh

#Jul 7th @ 4:27 PM

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