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[numen]

I've just bought a microsoft ergonomic keyboard 4000, its all very nice. Except it has a large zoom slider in the middle which is useless to me, what would be very nice is if i could use it to scroll (eg webpages).

I've been trying to do this for several hours but with no joy.

When I hook to capture the commands it just replicates Control MouseUp/MouseDown.

Therefore I thought ^MouseUp::MouseUp would work, but it doesn't.

Anyone got any suggestions,

Cheers.

[evl]

You could try removing any special drivers for the keyboard (and using standard ones) or other software associated with it and see if it works then.

[numen]

good thought, however when I remove the intellipoint software that comes with the keyboard autohotkey doesn't detect any keypresses when I move the slider.

[Chris]

When you viewed the key history window, did your script have the keyboard hook installed? If not, try adding the line #InstallKeybdHook to the script and then see if the slider and other custom buttons on the keyboard show up in try key history.

[Guest]

Gave up on autohotkey as the ms software was getting in the way. After a couple of hours messing about here's how to change it.

I copied the contents of the supplied intellipoint disc to my
harddrive, and discovered the file IType/SETUP/Files/Commands.xml.
This contains the key-action pairs for all the supported applications.
The really interesting ones start with C319 and C320, these are the up
and down commands of the zoom slider.

Therefore pick whatever application you wish to change the
functionality for, eg Internet Explorer (no I don't use it either).

<Application UniqueName="IEFrame" AppName="Internet Explorer">
<C319 Type="6" Activator="ZoomOut" />
<C320 Type="6" Activator="ZoomIn" />
</Application>

Changing this to:

<Application UniqueName="IEFrame" AppName="Internet Explorer">
<C319 Type="6" Activator="ScrollUp" />
<C320 Type="6" Activator="ScrollDown" />
</Application>

Means that the zoom slider now scrolls in ie.

Since I'm lazy I just replaced all the c319 and c320 lines with scroll,
this probably isn't wise as some of them are customised to do different
things depending on the application, but if your also lazy fire up vim
and use:

:%s/^.*<C319.*$/<C319 Type="6" Activator="ScrollUp" \/>/gc
:%s/^.*<C320.*$/<C320 Type="6" Activator="ScrollDown" \/>/gc

(note: It's not a very tidy replace, but it does the job)
(note2: Non vim people, I'm sure this can be done using a windows text
editor, but I've no idea how).
(note3: I'd guess you can also do this after IntelliType has been
installed by editing the commands.xml file directly in the Microsoft
IntelliType Pro directory, then restarting intellitype/windows)

[Cool1]

just edited my command.xml as you told (in "C:\Programme\Microsoft IntelliType Pro" after install).

and YES: scrolling instead of zooming. Thank you for this info.

By the way: if you launch "mskey.exe" and there choose "action/close intelli pro" in the menu and after that start the keyboard driver again by launching "type32.exe", you need no restart.

[johnystyles577]

Thank you "Corneliu I. Tusnea" for leading me in the right direction! Could no longer reply to the closed thread in groups.

For those of you using Visual Studio, here is the regex to do a replace for ONLY the nodes you want to change zoom toggle to scroll toggle:

Scroll Up
------------------
Find What:
\<C319 Type={:q}{.*}{"Zoom.*"}

Replace With:
\<C319 Type=\1\2"ScrollUp"



Scroll Down
------------------
Find What:
\<C320 Type={:q}{.*}{"Zoom.*"}

Replace With:
\<C320 Type=\1\2"ScrollDown"

if you replace all 319 and 320 keys in the command file, you will get some errors. The replace above will replace only the ones that work with the "ScrollUp" and "ScrollDown" identifiers. Some of the other progs use ctrl - / ctrl +, and most of those seem to make sense (i.e. photoshop in which i'd prob want it to zoom instead of scroll)

[NoX]

Hi!
Thanks first, for the useful tips. I also changed the Zoomslider into a scroller, but the scroll speed turned out to be very slooow. Since I don't know how to speed it up (maybe something like ScrollDownx3 I decided to have a pageUp/pageDown Button function on the slider.
I got some errors while checking it out, so I'll just note what to take care of.

As posted before <C319... and <C320 are the two identifiers for the Zoom Slider. The number behind ...Type=... refers to what type of butten will be activated.

Type=6 means it is a continuarly sliding function, like for zooming or scrolling. But if you want the whole thing to work as a normal Button like pageUp or page Down you need to change it to:

Type=5! This means, every move up or down is seen as one single keypress.

Therefore you also need to change the function from "Activator" to "KeySeq"

So the whole thing looks like this after modification (I first searched for "Firefox" in the command.xml and just changed it there):

<Application UniqueName="MozillaUIWindowClass" AppName="Mozilla Firefox 1.5">
<C319 Type="5" KeySeq="pageup" />
<C320 Type="5" KeySeq="pagedown" />


Keep on modifying everybody!
and tell me, if you know how to speed the scrolling function of that zoomslider up...

[springro]

Has anyone checked if Autohotkey can catch these as standard keys after the key setting has been changed?

Thanks.

[Guest]

thanks a lot. it really helps. Dont know why the programs dont allow users to do that.

Just figured out from C:\Program Files\Microsoft IntelliType Pro\commands.xml that F5 or open button can do next track for winamp.

you may add the key codes here for different next prev buttons so that the web page does not refreshes when you try to change the track.

<Application UniqueName="BaseWindow_RootWnd" AppName="WinAmp">
<C308 Type="5" KeySeq="l" />
</Application>

[ArgentumFX]

[Guest]

This also seems to work for the Microsoft Ergonomic Wireless 7000 as well. To change the scroll speed after the change, change the zoom speed in the standard Microsoft utility.

[PHenry]

I liked this blog, I even wrote one with some additional tidbits of info.

http://www.pchenry.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/77/Default.aspx

Thanks for the info.

[Guest]

Hi everybody!

I'm trying to change zoom to scroll, I changed commands.xml

<C319 Type="6" Activator="ScrollUp" />
<C320 Type="6" Activator="ScrollDown" />

in ALL section, StandartSupport

It has effect for all apps expect firefox.

Next, I changed

<Application UniqueName="MozillaUIWindowClass" AppName="Firefox">
<C319 Type="5" KeySeq="ctrl +" />
<C320 Type="5" KeySeq="ctrl -" />
</Application>

to
<C319 Type="6" KeySeq="ctrl add" />
<C320 Type="6" KeySeq="ctrl subtract" />

in ENG section, still no effect

Finally, I add two last rows in

<Application UniqueName="MozillaUIWindowClass" AppName="Firefox">
<C307 Type="5" KeySeq="ctrl n" />
<C308 Type="5" KeySeq="ctrl o" />
<C309 Type="5" KeySeq="ctrl w" />
<C310 Type="5" KeySeq="ctrl p" />
<C311 Type="5" KeySeq="ctrl s" />
<C315 Type="5" KeySeq="ctrl f" />
<C319 Type="6" KeySeq="ctrl add" />
<C320 Type="6" KeySeq="ctrl subtract" />
</Application>

of RUS section (I use russian windows 7 and russian firefox 6.0 beta) and when I try to scroll itype.exe gives error 'error installing intellitype software'

Any ideas?

[Guest]

the solution - http://osherove.com/blog/2007/12/18/quick-fix-file-turn-zoom-into-scroll-on-ms-natural-ergonomic.html
works for win7 32bit + ff6!