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I tried several things and tricks, and I don't find a way to detect the WheelRight and WheelLeft event available in todays so many mouses.

I can asign these to keys with the Mouse specific utility as SetPoint for Logitech and then handle the keys in HK as some people pointed out, but that has a number of limitations.

In my case I have a few CAD apps that scroll drawings with different hotkeys and/or mouse scroll, no compatibles in some case. HK ifWinActive function is really helpfull to discriminate what keys to send to whoever is active, the problem is that I can not forward the left/right scroll for the cad apps that support it. I could emulate a r/l scroll sending an API message from my assigned keystroke such as:

~Right:: ;Scroll Right
ControlGetFocus, fcontrol, A
Loop 5 ;
SendMessage, 0x114, 1, 0, %fcontrol%, A
return

THis work relatively ok with MS explorer, but not with My Orcad Cad program that ignores this scroll message. Even explorer takes only a few loop steps every time I hit my scroll right/left because mouse actions only happen once versus repetitively as a continously pressed key.

Any better solution at this time?

Rickote.

so the mouseWheel Left and right (not common, btw) actually send Right and Left (as in the arrow keys)?

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what sort of limitations do u get from using software to assin keys
Anyway, i saw some topics saying that you can get virtual key name from non-standart keyboards, look into that, but i'm not sure if it works on mices too.

Look in your key history, it may be registered as XButton1/2 or as a numeric code.
(You would need the mouse hook installed to test this).

JGR