[feedback] improving mouse management

[straef]

i have really been appreciating either mouse for my switching between my traditional optical mouse and my trackball.

some things i have found though that have detracted from my experience have been in managing mice and configurations. this is primarily caused by my simultaneous usage of mouse without borders to control my work computer from my primary computer. because any mouse from the work laptop, like the touchpad, is learned as a new mouse if it moves the cursor to primary computer.

i would like to be able to stop either mouse from learning new mice. so i can learn the mice i want to and then disallow any new mice to be learned. if this were a toggle of some sort, it could later be turned off to enable a new mouse if the user desired.

i would also like to be able to see all the mice that have been learned, even when they are not connected or in use as active cursor. ideally i would be able to manage and "unlearn" any mouse individually in this manner. with this the nuclear reset all settings would not be necessary when an issue occurs with only a subset of all learned mice. even an editable settings file with the learned mice enumerated would be sufficient for this purpose. the file could be an export/import type that is not actively used by the program, but the user could export their settings, make edits, and import the changes. this would give users a method to backup their settings or apply them on multiple computers.

while these issues impact me more, due to my circumstances, i believe that both of these changes would benefit every user by giving them more control and allowing them to manage their mice more efficiently.

as an example, a user has two learned mice and one is replaced. their only ability to "unlearn" the superseded mouse is by clearing all settings and learning the the mice they will use all over again.

[gwarble]

thanks for the feedback, sorry I don't use GitHub much and and following up so late...

I agree the management could use improvement, I've long had on my to do list a way to edit any settings independant of which mouse is being used, but I like your idea of exporting/importing settings as well as removing individual mice, I will try to incorporate (admitedly someday as I don't have much time to update)

[Tetraden]

Just to inform: As a work around you can manage your mice in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\EitherMouse in the registry manually. The parameters are named human readable
ATTENTION: You always have to know what you are doing in registry. It can destroy your Windows installation.