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Guest · Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 9:49 pm Post subject: Problematic mouse keys

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?CID=1&SCID=5&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

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10480

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.

Hülyesamu · Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 17

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)

Chris · Site Admin Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 10480

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.

Hülyesamu · Joined: 24 Sep 2004 Posts: 17

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.