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Hi, I' ve got a new mouse, which has not less than 8 buttons, the 3 normal, XButton1 and 2, and 3 more.

http://www.a4tech.com/en/product2.asp?C ... MNO=RP-680

The only problem is that I cannot get the scancode of the lat 3 buttons, with or without the #InstallMouseHook force directive. Otherwise, the mouse itself is a radio-contorlled PS/2 device, and the receiver flashes whe I push any of theese buttons, saying it gets signs from the mouse both with and without the driver.

Is it impossible to make theese buttons work?

thx

I believe the OS only directly supports 5 mouse buttons, so normally you will have to rely on any utility software that came with your mouse to assign an action to button #6 and beyond.

It might let you assign keystroke actions to mouse buttons, in which case hotkeys could be designed to be triggered by those keystrokes.

Yes, this seems to work. But if the mosue itself communicates via the PS/2, isn't it strange that it does not send any scancodes? I have a keyboard form the same manufacturer, and I had no problems getting the scancode from its special (not OS-interruptabe) keys, and I am not very happy It doesn't work with this mouse.

I have a question: if the Autohotkey doesn't get a scancode from this mouse, does it mean the proggy doesn't detect any sign? Because I am thinking to write a letter to the manufacturer, in order to get some info of theese 3 buttons. But if teese buttons are unuseable for the muse, it's no use.

(I was the guest starter of this topic, just I forgot to log in)

I think it's a limitation of the OS and its default mouse driver, which seems to ignore anything beyond the first five buttons and the turning of the mouse wheel.

I just tried searching for alternate/generic drivers, but didn't find anything. So it looks like mice with more than 5 buttons always need a vendor-specific driver to access all buttons.

I've sent an e-mail to the customer service of the manufacturer, and I hope that we will be more clever within 1 week.