30 Dec
2001
30 Dec
'01
6:15 p.m.
Fred,
How about this? Print your transparency. Get one of the
mousepads with the lift up clear cover. They make them
so you can put your own picture of whatever you like under
the cover. Then instead of a picture you put some aluminum
foil and your printed transparency under the cover? That
way your transparency and foil might last forever and not
ever need to be redone? And if anything happened to the
mousepad part, just toss it and grab another?
Fred deBros wrote:
Ok, after a few days of trial and error with all sorts of shiny and
glittery Christmas wrappings:
The best way to make a pad for the SUN optical mice is to print the
mousepad.ps file on a transparency, and mount it on one of those semi
rigid aluminum plates such as used for cheapie (Christmas!) food trays.
Mount it UPSIDE DOWN of course, so as not to scratch the print side too
soon. Maybe laminate the whole shebang? Add a print of the pad in the
back so you can quickly copy it again if the first one "scratches out".
Make sure the felts under the mouse are there. Type 4 and type 5 mice,
both work with that contraption.
Now if only there was a pgm to accelerate the movements like in windows
mice...
Fred