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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: lionstorm on January 22, 2004, 07:31:30 AM

Title: driver for 3 buttons mouse
Post by: lionstorm on January 22, 2004, 07:31:30 AM

Hi all,
I change my original 2 buttons amiga mouse for a ps/2 (with ezmouse) 3 buttons pc mouse.
Now which driver is good for me in order to use to middle button ? (and if this driver can make me use the third button in quake/quake2, that would be fantastic).
Lio

Title: Re: driver for 3 buttons mouse
Post by: Jope on January 22, 2004, 07:39:06 AM

Don't know about ezmouse, but the Amiga supports 3 buttons out of the box.. So if that adapter is in the least bit sensible, it should direct the 3rd button to the right pin and it'll work out of the box.

Try it with MCP or some other util that lets you sample keypresses for shortcuts. You should get a middlebutton event when you click it.

At least my mroocheck works just fine with a three button serial mouse.

Title: Re: driver for 3 buttons mouse
Post by: lionstorm on January 22, 2004, 12:09:34 PM

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Don't know about ezmouse, but the Amiga supports 3 buttons out of the box

ok but which is the soft that allow me to configure the 3rd button ?
I am not using mcp (and dont intend to).
Lio

Title: Re: driver for 3 buttons mouse
Post by: dandelion on January 22, 2004, 12:17:05 PM

If the adaptor is fully Amiga compatible then it should be relaying the middle-mouse button events. Without using any extra software, Workbench 3.0 (at least) allows you to use the middle mouse button in file requesters to immediately jump back to the Devices list. Very useful.

Title: Re: driver for 3 buttons mouse
Post by: lempkee on January 22, 2004, 12:40:39 PM

hey lion , i use my middle button for switching screens (ie from wb screen to ib screen or from quake 2 screen to wb etc :)  ,

i use MULTICX! yep the commodity which comes with amigaOS ..

check it out , it should be in sys:tools/commodity*

there is too many options in it i never will try but i am sure there is enough for you too :)

cheers

Title: Re: driver for 3 buttons mouse
Post by: lempkee on January 22, 2004, 12:42:24 PM

correction , its early today and multicx is not free with os3.9 , i was wrong.....

cheers

Title: Re: driver for 3 buttons mouse
Post by: CaptainHIT on January 22, 2004, 12:45:55 PM

I would recommend you to check FreeWheel on aminet. It is a nice commodity which can assign actions to other buttons and supports more than 3 buttons. At least that is what i know  :-D

Title: Re: driver for 3 buttons mouse
Post by: lionstorm on January 22, 2004, 01:59:43 PM

Thanks all.
I already have freewheel for a mouseman+ optical from logitech but it was not able to seperate the 3rd and 4th buttons so I have a nice 4 buttons mice with wheel but only 3 could be defined for a specific task.
I did not think I could use it with a mouse... which lacks the wheel. It still should be somewhere in a drawer inside WBstartup.
Lio