- Wireless Intellimouse Explorer - can't get scroll wheel just to bea middle mouse button!
- Posted by Alex Hunsley on November 22nd, 2005
I have a microsoft mouse. Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 to be exact.
Using it with XP SP2 and with the Intellimouse driver installed.
The problem is that I'm using a program (xFig) where you need to be able
to press the middle mouse button. The scroll wheel on the Intellimouse
is also effectively a middle button you can click, but at the moment the
click is set up to do "Next window" in the intellimouse software. The
intellimouse software also lets you chagne what action the buttons have.
Fine, except that there is no "middle button click" action! There is
only left click and right click. How can I get round this and just have
a plain old middle mouse button?
thanks
alex
- Posted by Nightowl on November 22nd, 2005
Alex Hunsley <lard@tardis.ed.ac.molar.uk> wrote on Tue, 22 Nov 2005:
>The intellimouse software also lets you chagne what action the buttons
>have. Fine, except that there is no "middle button click" action! There
>is only left click and right click. How can I get round this and just
>have a plain old middle mouse button?
Hi Alex
Hmm, there is a "middle-click" option in my Intellipoint software,
version 5.20, and I'm using it. Or is this not what you mean?
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- Posted by Alex Hunsley on November 23rd, 2005
Alex Hunsley wrote:
> I have a microsoft mouse. Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 to be exact.
> Using it with XP SP2 and with the Intellimouse driver installed.
>
> The problem is that I'm using a program (xFig) where you need to be able
> to press the middle mouse button. The scroll wheel on the Intellimouse
> is also effectively a middle button you can click, but at the moment the
> click is set up to do "Next window" in the intellimouse software. The
> intellimouse software also lets you chagne what action the buttons have.
> Fine, except that there is no "middle button click" action! There is
> only left click and right click. How can I get round this and just have
> a plain old middle mouse button?
>
> thanks
> alex
Sorry, crossed wires here, win doesn't really have a notion of middle
mouse button anyway, does it?
- Posted by dev on November 23rd, 2005
/Alex Hunsley/ said:
> Alex Hunsley wrote:
>
>>I have a microsoft mouse. Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 to be exact.
>>Using it with XP SP2 and with the Intellimouse driver installed.
>>
>>The problem is that I'm using a program (xFig) where you need to be able
>>to press the middle mouse button. The scroll wheel on the Intellimouse
>>is also effectively a middle button you can click, but at the moment the
>>click is set up to do "Next window" in the intellimouse software. The
>>intellimouse software also lets you change what action the buttons have.
>>Fine, except that there is no "middle button click" action! There is
>>only left click and right click. How can I get round this and just have
>> a plain old middle mouse button?
Open START|PROGRAMS|MOUSE and look for the "wheel button" item.
If it's not there, then the Intellipoint software may not be configured for
Explorer 2.0. Make that choice.
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- Posted by Malke on November 23rd, 2005
Alex Hunsley wrote:
> Alex Hunsley wrote:
>> I have a microsoft mouse. Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 to be
>> exact. Using it with XP SP2 and with the Intellimouse driver
>> installed.
>>
>> The problem is that I'm using a program (xFig) where you need to be
>> able to press the middle mouse button. The scroll wheel on the
>> Intellimouse is also effectively a middle button you can click, but
>> at the moment the click is set up to do "Next window" in the
>> intellimouse software. The intellimouse software also lets you chagne
>> what action the buttons have. Fine, except that there is no "middle
>> button click" action! There is only left click and right click. How
>> can I get round this and just have
>> a plain old middle mouse button?
>>
>> thanks
>> alex
>
> Sorry, crossed wires here, win doesn't really have a notion of middle
> mouse button anyway, does it?
Yes, of course it does. However, it is dependent on the mouse software
to provide more than a few options. Look in the Mouse applet in Control
Panel.
Malke
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- Posted by st.daniel on November 24th, 2005
What function are you looking for?
DblClk,open,Enter? All there under Wheel Button in CP>Mouse, unless corrupted.
Test a few in the xFig program. Surely it's one of them.
"Alex Hunsley" wrote:
> Alex Hunsley wrote:
> > I have a microsoft mouse. Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 to be exact.
> > Using it with XP SP2 and with the Intellimouse driver installed.
> >
> > The problem is that I'm using a program (xFig) where you need to be able
> > to press the middle mouse button. The scroll wheel on the Intellimouse
> > is also effectively a middle button you can click, but at the moment the
> > click is set up to do "Next window" in the intellimouse software. The
> > intellimouse software also lets you chagne what action the buttons have.
> > Fine, except that there is no "middle button click" action! There is
> > only left click and right click. How can I get round this and just have
> > a plain old middle mouse button?
> >
> > thanks
> > alex
>
> Sorry, crossed wires here, win doesn't really have a notion of middle
> mouse button anyway, does it?
>
>
- Posted by Nightowl on November 24th, 2005
st.daniel <stdaniel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on Wed, 23 Nov
2005:
>What function are you looking for?
>DblClk,open,Enter? All there under Wheel Button in CP>Mouse, unless corrupted.
>Test a few in the xFig program. Surely it's one of them.
I don't get it. . . Intellimouse 5.20 does offer middle-click, I'm using
it myself. Unless Alex is after something different?
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- Posted by Bob Eyster on November 24th, 2005
The software that came with my hardware is version 5.0. Where does one get
version 5.20?
Bob Eyster
"Nightowl" <owl@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
news:iLqK4CctGXhDFwL$@black.hole...
> st.daniel <stdaniel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on Wed, 23 Nov
> 2005:
>
>>What function are you looking for?
>>DblClk,open,Enter? All there under Wheel Button in CP>Mouse, unless
>>corrupted.
>>Test a few in the xFig program. Surely it's one of them.
>
> I don't get it. . . Intellimouse 5.20 does offer middle-click, I'm using
> it myself. Unless Alex is after something different?
>
> --
> Nightowl
- Posted by Bill James on November 24th, 2005
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
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"Bob Eyster" <reyster1@comcast.net> wrote in message news:OnfMmqQ8FHA.1292@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> The software that came with my hardware is version 5.0. Where does one get
> version 5.20?
>
>
> Bob Eyster
>
>
>
> "Nightowl" <owl@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
> news:iLqK4CctGXhDFwL$@black.hole...
>> st.daniel <stdaniel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on Wed, 23 Nov
>> 2005:
>>
>>>What function are you looking for?
>>>DblClk,open,Enter? All there under Wheel Button in CP>Mouse, unless
>>>corrupted.
>>>Test a few in the xFig program. Surely it's one of them.
>>
>> I don't get it. . . Intellimouse 5.20 does offer middle-click, I'm using
>> it myself. Unless Alex is after something different?
>>
>> --
>> Nightowl
>
>
- Posted by Bob Eyster on November 24th, 2005
Got it, thanks!
Version 5.0 did not have the Middleclick option. Must have been an oversight
by M$.
Bob Eyster
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"Bob Eyster" <reyster1@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:OnfMmqQ8FHA.1292@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> The software that came with my hardware is version 5.0. Where does one get
> version 5.20?
>
>
> Bob Eyster
>
>
>
> "Nightowl" <owl@[127.0.0.1]> wrote in message
> news:iLqK4CctGXhDFwL$@black.hole...
>> st.daniel <stdaniel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote on Wed, 23 Nov
>> 2005:
>>
>>>What function are you looking for?
>>>DblClk,open,Enter? All there under Wheel Button in CP>Mouse, unless
>>>corrupted.
>>>Test a few in the xFig program. Surely it's one of them.
>>
>> I don't get it. . . Intellimouse 5.20 does offer middle-click, I'm using
>> it myself. Unless Alex is after something different?
>>
>> --
>> Nightowl
>
>
- Posted by frodo@theshire.org on November 24th, 2005
Bob Eyster <reyster1@comcast.net> wrote:
> Version 5.0 did not have the Middleclick option. Must have been an oversight
> by M$.
"middle-click" and "auto-scroll" are equivalent (to most applications).
- Posted by st.daniel on November 25th, 2005
Thanks! I needed to know that myself.
Also, found out I had reinstalled 5.0 instead of 5.2!
"frodo@theshire.org" wrote:
> Bob Eyster <reyster1@comcast.net> wrote:
> > Version 5.0 did not have the Middleclick option. Must have been an oversight
> > by M$.
>
> "middle-click" and "auto-scroll" are equivalent (to most applications).
>
>
