Bluetooth mouse driver/app

by **vmiguel** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:10 pm

Hi,

I would like to have a software that could implement any (or at least, the more normal ones) bluetooth mouse on my PPC.

I know this is possible, as there's a company selling a (expensive) bundle with a bt mouse and the drivers for PC and PPC. Unfortunately, they don't sell the software whitout the mouse, and besides, their software only works with their mouse.

Many people allready have a bt mouse, so there's no need to buy a new one. BUT, I, and many others, would gladly buy a software to work with their's existing bluetooth mouses, on our PPC.

by **vmiguel** » Mon Mar 19, 2007 1:55 pm

No comments, weither way?

I tought this would be something that many PPC users would like...

In www.pocketpt.net and www.xda-developers.com forums, there was some talk about this, and many were interested.

by **radhoo** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:08 pm

vmiguel, the idea is quite interesting and I believe we will see an implementation soon.

of course, you will receive a free license for it. also any other ideas related to this should be posted here.

Rgds,
Radu

by **vmiguel** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 12:53 pm

radhoo wrote:vmiguel, the idea is quite interesting and I believe we will see an implementation soon.

of course, you will receive a free license for it. also any other ideas related to this should be posted here.

Rgds,
Radu

Those are great news, thanks!

And I surely don't mind getting a free license...

I offer my services as a beta tester, if you need one. I use a i-mate Jasjar (WM6 non official rom, but I can change to a official one), and a Clicker F-21 bt mouse.

Also, my wife use a Qtek S100, so, if WM2003 woul be supported, I can test it also in that configuration.

And in a portuguese ppc forum, I've posted a pool, to verify if it would be of interest. Not many voters, but it seams that such a software could have a good comercial perspective. More than 80% of the voters stated that they would be interested in such a application.

Best regards from Portugal.

vmiguel

by **vmiguel** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:15 pm

Some ideas, to use the mouse in PPC as we do in a desktop PC, in relevance order (from my standpoint):

1. Make it simple and light on the resources needed.

2. Implement right button for the "click-and-hold", context menu action (or make it configurable for other options, as opening a pre-set application).

3. Implement wheel action when scrolling lists.

4. Make it configuration free, as much as possible.

5. When using the mouse, if the PPC times out, and go into sleep mode, when turned on again, make it reconnects with the mouse without user intervention...

6. ... or make it connect by a simple method, maybe a simple button on a Today plugin, or in the Task bar.

Those are quite obvious, and probably, the Teksoft team already figured that out...

by **Nebula** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:42 pm

Hm very interesting, would this work with ANY type of BT mouse?

by **vmiguel** » Tue May 01, 2007 12:51 am

So, no news on this one?

Many people on the PPC portuguese forum where I posted a poll about such a program, are asking me if this is going to be available.

I do understand that some secrecy is important on such a new application... :wink:

by **Sn0wflake** » Thu May 03, 2007 12:16 pm

Hello all,

We have a few devs already working on a solution. Hope we will have good news for you soon.
Nebula: yes it should support any bluetooth mouse (general HID support).

Best regards,
Meda

by **Sn0wflake** » Mon May 07, 2007 12:00 pm

Hello all,

Check out the news for this topic:
http://www.teksoftco.com/index.php?section=press#070506

Best regards,
Meda

by **radhoo** » Tue May 08, 2007 2:47 pm

So far so good :wink:

by **vmiguel** » Tue May 08, 2007 4:40 pm

Looking good...

Can hardly wait!

by **joel32137** » Wed May 16, 2007 11:45 am

Hello, Is it possible if I can sign up to be a beta tester for BlueMouse? Who would I have to contact to be a beta tester? Thanks.

by **vmiguel** » Wed May 16, 2007 12:07 pm

As a beta tester, I think I'm allowed to say this much:

IT WORKS!!!

A few more tweakings, and it will be a dream come true, for me!

Thanks guys!

by **Radimus** » Wed May 16, 2007 7:36 pm

I'd like to try it

Cingular 8525 (HTC Tytn) with the latest AT&T WM5 ROM and the MS Bluetooth Mouse (Intellimouse Explorer for Bluetooth)

by **FireflyII** » Thu May 17, 2007 2:51 am

I'd also love to try this and be a tester! I've got a Dell Axim x51v, and a Dell bluetooth mouse (which I bought in hopes that they'd work together), and I'm running WM5 with the Aximsite.com Widcomm bluetooth drivers, but I'd be willing to revert to the MS stack for this to work.

by **dimo** » Thu May 17, 2007 8:03 am

I have an Axim X50v with original MS bluetooth stack and WM5 A02 ROM. My mouse is EPoX BT-M02B. I would like to beta test your driver.

Best regards

by **melvynadam** » Thu May 17, 2007 8:43 am

I too would love to test the beta for this. I'm running an HTC Wizard with WM6. I have an IOGear Bluetooth Mini-mouse.

by **forests.gump** » Thu May 17, 2007 4:23 pm

Those PPC owners wish uses a BT mouse would likely to compliment it with a BT keyboard. Thinkoutside BT keyboard is currrently the most popular choice, thus ensuring bluemouse working in such situation is important.

I would also like to be a beta tester if possible. I own X50V on both wm2003se & WM5, and I own thinkoutside BT keyboard, thus I can test if your bluemouse driver works well along side with thinkoutstide BT keyboard.

by **WebPastor** » Thu May 17, 2007 5:39 pm

I would also love to be a beta test for bluetooth mouse driver. I use a bluetooth M$ mouse on my notebook currently and would love to use it on my T-Mobile MDA (which I use as much or more than my notebook). It has the latest T-Mobile ROM. Thanks.

by **kieranmullen** » Thu May 17, 2007 11:40 pm

Dell Axim x51v. Have modified stack. I would like to purchase one as I am looking for a gps right now that supports the GPX logging format. (which should be standard but I was already told by i-blue that they dont do it)

Thank you

KieranMullen

by **NevSA** » Fri May 18, 2007 1:53 am

Hi there,

I have an Axim x51v with the modified BT stack. I have a Kensington Bluetooth Mouse.
Would love to beta test this software.
Thanks.

by **admin** » Fri May 18, 2007 12:02 pm

Dear All,

Thanks for showing interest in Beta testing the BlueMouse application. As we have limited time, we can only run a few additonal tests, so unfortunatelly we cannot accept all the requests.

The following users have been selected: joel32137, Radimus, dimo and melvynadam. You will receive an email with further instructions on the installation process, and the set of tests that needs to be run.

Again, thanks to all of you for the interest.

Mr. A.

by **peejay** » Fri May 18, 2007 8:59 pm

forests.gump wrote:Those PPC owners wish uses a BT mouse would likely to compliment it with a BT keyboard. Thinkoutside BT keyboard is currrently the most popular choice, thus ensuring bluemouse working in such situation is important.

I agree that it is vital this software works alongside a keyboard. But in a sense the Thinkoutside keyboard is the LEAST important one, isn't it, because there's already a mouse that works with it? ie the Thinkoutside one.

Isn't it more important that the software works with other keyboards? I say this because I've tried, for example, the Freedom Universal keyboard, which I liked a lot as a keyboard, but it conflicted with my Thinkoutside mouse. I'd like to have a Freedom keyboard, but I'd only consider it if I was sure I could also use a mouse with it.

So I'm watching this software with interest!

by **vmiguel** » Sat May 19, 2007 4:51 pm

@ peejay

I don't have a bt keyboard (I don't need one, my PPC has one onboard), but I can tell you that BlueMouse worked without problems simultaneously with a bt headset and bt ActiveSync connection.

by **justinb** » Sun May 20, 2007 8:55 pm

Hi guys, I would love a chance to beta test your product. I have a x51v with a rebranded BT500 mouse and a thinkoutside stowaway keyboard. One of the main reasons I bought an Axim was to use as a laptop replacement that would fit in jacket pockets. I was really disappointed to find out that my mouse, which looks to be the same kind of mouse as the Thinkoutside mouse, would not work with their driver. You guys seem to have the cure

As a bonus, I have experience working as a tester and C# developer in past and present jobs. I'm currently working on a driver for the Wiimote using the compact framework, and would love to talk to you guys about WM5 coding in general. I'm trial'ing and fairly sold on the purchase of the Franson Bluetools SDK (on the strength of dual MS/Widcomm support) but I'd be interested to hear what you suggest.

Hope to hear back,
Justin Burns
Email: user=justinb26, host=gmail.com

by **forests.gump** » Mon May 21, 2007 10:34 am

Quote:
"Thinkoutside keyboard is the LEAST important one, isn't it..."
"...it conflicted with my Thinkoutside mouse"
"Isn't it more important that the software works with other keyboards?"

Cough..very interesting reasoning...Cough...biting own tongue...Cough Cough...

If someone already have a Thinkoutside mouse (which has a driver), why I need bluemouse? I would go to Thinkoutside and tell them to fix the driver, or get a keyboard which does not conflict ! (such as Thinkoutside keyboard)

On the other hand, those of us has Thinkoutside keyboard (me,justinb,etc) and yet to buy the Thinkoutside mouse, we would have lots of bt mouse choices which bluemouse driver gives.

Nice try though!

by **admin** » Mon May 21, 2007 11:15 am

The thinkoutside solution is really poor.

Not only it has limited compatibility with other BT Mouse Devices, but the interface is poor, and offering little configuration options.

From my point of view, they wanted to get exclusivity and to sell their weak product, because people didn't have any other choice.

So BlueMouse is a general solution, works with different configurations, basically it's the same as on your desktop platform, you just connect your mouse and you are ready to go , and this is something unique on the market, at the moment, as the thinkoutside solution doesn't get even close to this.

If we were to discuss the pricing, I don't think it's worthy to buy the thinkoutside solution for 70$ and get their crappy mouse. I like to use quality products, not mices produced by an unknown company like thinkoutside. So yes, I prefer to chose my own Mouse from trusted sources, and I expect to find the proper driver for it to work on my mobile device - and the only solution here is BlueMouse.

A different scenario, and most of us fit into this, is the case were we have the mouse already, for using it with the laptop or desktop computer. Remeber the frustration when you saw that it doesn't work on the Pocket PC even if it was detected!

For all these cases, again, there is only one real solution available.

by **admin** » Mon May 21, 2007 11:23 am

This thread is closed, let's continue the discussion on this topic in the released products forum:

http://teksoftco.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1345

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