My 6-button mouse

[mwieder]

Richard -

If that's the model, from the technical specs it looks like the drivers are for Windows only.

[richmond62]

Is it this model?
https://www.adesso.com/UploadFiles/20170125031528.pdf

No.

It is a genuine, no name, made in the PRC thing from eBay.UK.

However, it's right-handed companion is a Trust item 22885 made in exactly the same place.
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[mwieder]

Nonetheless, the fact that your browser responds to the key 4 and 5 presses means that the device is indeed generating the proper rawKeyDown/Up codes for scrollwheel actions, so it's probably worth checking that again.

[richmond62]

Buttons 4 and 5 are NOT part of the scrollwheel; they are buttons-qua-buttons.

[FourthWorld]

Buttons 4 and 5 are NOT part of the scrollwheel; they are buttons-qua-buttons.

On similar devices sold under various brands but likely from the same factory, those buttons are for Forward and Back, which map to keyboard actions.

Really, perhaps everyone in this thread may be onto something worth trying: double check your rawKeyDown handler.

[richmond62]

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Currently working on a laptop running Xubuntu 20.04 beta with a DELUX vertical mouse . . .

This:

Code: Select all

on rawKeyDown RD
   put RD into fld "ff"
end rawKeyDown

brings no joy.

After supper I'll have a go with the other 2 mice on the Macintosh.

[richmond62]

OK: so here I am, fed, and back on the Mac Mini and from rawKeyDown I get:

Mouse button 1: nothing

Mouse button 2 (popping the scroll wheel): nothing

Mouse button 3: nothing

Mouse button 4: nothing

Mouse button 5: nothing

Mouse button 6: nothing

Scroll wheel away from me: 65308

Scroll wheel towards me: 65309

Same for both the left-handed and the right-handed mouse.

NBG

[FourthWorld]

USB input devices tend to work one of two ways: they either map their inputs to common OS-supported features like mouse and keyboard actions, or they require a driver to take those inputs and use OS APIs to produce an action.

Are you sure the device requires no driver?

Does your rawKeyDown handler work with the keyboard?

[FourthWorld]

I wonder if polling the keysdown may work. Some Windows gestures get mapped to multi-key actions.

[richmond62]

Richmond- You have a 6-button left handed mouse?
How many fingers do you have on your left hand?

Unfortunately only 5; but, oddly enough, I am able to move them independently of
each other, so it is possible for one of them to press more than one button.

The 2 ergonomic mice I have connected to my Mac Mini both have 3 buttons on their inner-sides
that can be clicked with the thumb.
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Buttons 4 and 5 allow one to do a sort of drag-n-drop scroll thing with the mouse in a web-browser.

[richmond62]

Does your rawKeyDown handler work with the keyboard?

Yup.
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No driver: the mice work the same on Macintosh and Xubuntu.

[FourthWorld]

Buttons 4 and 5 allow one to do a sort of drag-n-drop scroll thing with the mouse in a web-browser.

I've seen drag-n-drop, and I've seen scrolling, but I can't imagine what a "drag-n-drop scroll thing" is. How does the manufacturer describe it?

I wonder if the keysdown function might provide a clue....

[richmond62]

a sort of drag-n-drop scroll thing

That was me just getting stroppy.

[richmond62]

I wonder if the keysdown function might provide a clue....

Grasping at straws I'm afraid.
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[FourthWorld]

If that was in response to a click from the device it looks like you have success, no?