Mouse usurper

[wookie490]

I use a Niveus PC remote for GB-PVR. I love that it will act as a universal remote and uses RF to send commands to the PC through the wall (PC sits in closet in other room). It's got this big trackpad to control the mouse which I thought would be great. But when running GB-PVR, it's a helluva lot easier to use the arrow keys than the mouse.

The Niveus remote is programmable for almost evey key except the mouse control buttons.....grumble....

Is it feasible to write a mouse usurper (plugin or standalone) that would capture mouse movements and then convert them to a keypress and send that keypress to GB-PVR?

I have some programming experience, but mostly in the embedded processor arena. I'm willing to take a crack at this though. I'm just hoping it doesn't involve rewriting drivers or anything.

[mike909]

I am looking into this remote as well...which I think is the same, but not sure. Do you still need girder? can the buttons be mapped to up/down/left/right arrows to mimick a keyboard? How good is the config app? Can I be in PC mode, and still use the 'volume' buttons to controll my reciever via IR? or do you have to switch back and forth between modes? I would like to allways have the volume buttons controll the volume on my reciever, while all other buttons work in PC mode. Can all buttons function in PC mode, or just some? How customizable are the buttons? If you can customize keyboard shortcuts to buttons, you wouldn't need girder...I would think. Thanks.