Use Wacom as a second mouse

John Wyffels

• March 11, 2024 18:57

I often dream of being able to use my Cintiq to draw while still having separate control over my trackpad (mouse) to maintain my mouse position to click on pesky dialog windows or checkboxes while maintaining the position of the pen, often times on separate monitors. It must be possible to program a second mouse of sorts to be used by the tablet so you see maybe two different colored mice—one for the primary and one for the pen. You must have communication with Apple and Windows to coordinate such a device expansion (if such collaboration is needed). I mean, that could even open the doors for drawing diagonal straight lines in Photoshop when shift is held down (among other things).

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  João

  • March 12, 2024 09:58

  Hi John Wyffels, 

  The Wacom driver is simply sending input data to the operating system which in turn manages the cursor position, clicks and everything else. 

  Neither Windows or Mac are prepared to work with the assumption that more than one cursor is needed. There is no "pointer 1 or 2" type of identifier that could use to implement such a feature. To be honest, that is a very niche use case and the development investment is probably better put else where. 

  With that said, I have found a few discussions online in other forums and I see a few other users would like a similar feature.

  Seems that on Windows, there is a decent 3rd party program that can manage this: https://pluralinput.com/index-old.html

  On Mac, I could not find any solution.  
  
  

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