 The quest to help my fellow pro mouse users continues if you are a pro mouse user you may want to watch this video Hello, welcome to take one tech. My name's Alec and this is another video about pro mouse And if you weren't aware what pro mouse is it is a little application that allows me to highlight my mouse pointer like this You will have probably seen me use it on some of my demonstrations It allows me to magnify an area of the screen if I want to The looking at the lovely e-cam live website It also allows me to spotlight in the area of the website and there are also drawing tools so that I can draw things on the screen Like I could point out different things like this or maybe draw a little arrow and things like that So that is essentially what pro mouse is used for Now I did do a whole video all about pro mouse and the benefits of it And I will leave a big link to that video up in the top corner and also down in the description And it's something that I've been using for ages and I found it to be work I would say flawlessly for me I've not really had any issues with it as such and so I made videos about it and I've recommended it to lots of people But it seems that lots of people have little niggling problems with it And that is not a good thing if you are relying on this thing To use in demonstrations and things like that because it can actually sort of put you off Off-footing slightly if things don't go the way you expect them to when you're in the middle of a demonstration And it's also not good to have a piece of software that you're not entirely confident in like I use e-cam live And I feel totally confident in using it And so I don't have to worry about that aspect of this video production and for me It's the same with pro mouse but I do know that a lot of people are having some little issues here and there and so I'm on this quest because I've Recommend it to a lot of people and a lot of people have used it because of my video or because of my recommendation To try to figure out what is actually going on and how to stop these little issues that other people seem to be having so that they They can have the same experience as I have and also to almost Validate my recommendation because I wouldn't like to think that I'd recommended something to people that they'd bought and then it wasn't working for them Like it should do so That is the purpose of this video. It is another little follow-up I did do a previous follow-up video by the way, which may have helped some people out But may not have solved all problems. So I'll leave a link to that second troubleshooting video Up in the top corner, but one thing that I see often Happening in people's demonstrations Usually shortly before they say damn you Alec because of the thing going wrong for them it's something like this and it's when they're giving a screen demonstration, let's say this one and They're not intending to use any drawing tools or things like that on on On pro mouse, but then as they're going to do something Let's say they're going to press a command click on something and then they press command and then that activates that particular Action within pro mouse or they press another button and it draws a line or maybe they draw a Freehand line or something like that when they're just not expecting it to actually do anything And that's because the hot keys that you set set for these I mean that's for me that the arrow key is just simply by pressing and holding commands So obviously that is a key that you use a lot in in other things But I have it is just set to this one particular key So the thing is you can toggle on and off the drawing now I know people know this but one thing that perhaps I think people haven't noticed Possibly this is not going to be for everybody But some people may not have noticed is if you come into the the settings for Pro mouse, there is this one option here, which is remember on off states And that means that you can toggle on and off. In fact, if I come out of this and come into my demo mode If I go into my pro mouse settings Uh, in fact, no, I'm already in my pro mouse settings. Aren't I silly me? If you come into uh into here, you can toggle whether these things are on and off So you can turn them on and off In fact, what I was going to do is I was going to show you up here. So I wasn't completely mad So you can you've got this option here to toggle functions So you can toggle the zoom on and off the spotlight or the drawing tool You can actually toggle them off from within the menu bar But yes, you can toggle them also on and off From within the um, whoopsie daisy A bit trigger happy on the stream deck. You can also toggle them on and off here Now what I have is I have a an action on my stream deck to actually toggle them on So for the drawing tools, for example, the way that that is when I load Pro mouse it actually remains as off So that drawing tool state is always for me off when I load pro mouse And it only actually toggles on when I press my stream deck icon My stream deck button to toggle it on and you can set that if you go into the shortcuts So here is where we can set The shortcut for drawing for example. So here you can toggle it on and off So it's this one down at the bottom. I'll just move this up a little bit more You can see that we've got this one here. So this is the shortcut key to toggle the drawing mode on and off So if you just have it so that that is off as a default And then also make sure that in the general settings you have that set to Remember on off states so that then it will remember that it's off It will just be off all of the time and then you won't get that issue of Things like this where you just randomly draw on the screen when you are not expecting it So just a little short video and as I say I'm in a quest to iron out all of these little niggles That seem to be catching a few people out and hopefully it can be a more useful and And reliable tool for you all to use so If you have found this useful Let let me know in the comments and don't forget to like and subscribe But definitely if this is something that has solved a problem for you Then let me know in the comments if you have any other issues with With pro mouse. I'm not necessarily tech support, but I am I'm determined to get to the bottom of what is causing issues for people with this application because once it's working It's it's really really useful. So That's all I've got to say I'll leave a link to some of my other videos over on the right hand side related to E-cam live And until the next time have a great day