My 6-button mouse

[richmond62]

Has got 6 buttons:
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Which is great . . . BUT:
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So when I have this in the cardScript of a stack"

Code: Select all

on mouseUp XX
   put XX into fld "ff"
end mouseUp

It will report buttons 1,2 and 3, but NOT buttons 4,5 and 6.

Any bright ideas?

[Klaus]

Any bright ideas?

No, LC only supports 3-buttons so far, what do you exspect?

[richmond62]

I expect heaven.

[Klaus]

I expect heaven.

LOL, OK, have fun in the meantime!

[richmond62]

Maybe I'm naive in the extreme (err, no; don't answer that one), BUT . . .

I thought that all buttons connected to USB input devices, when clicked, would register
in such a way that LiveCode could receive that signal . . .

HOWEVER, keyUp didn't do much for my mouse either.

[richmond62]

Aha: not being that original:

https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?t=26518
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I wonder if he did?

[dunbarx]

Richmond.

I have a multi-button Logitech mouse. But I have to explicitly assign actions to the various buttons in an app they provide, which ends up in the "extra" section of the system preferences. But all these buttons return a unique value with RawKeyUp.

Craig

[richmond62]

all these buttons return a unique value with RawKeyUp

Aha! Thank you.

[richmond62]

Not with either my right-handed or my left-handed ergonomic mouse:

LiveCode 9.5.1

MacOS 10.15.4 beta 2

[FourthWorld]

Does the device come with drivers?

[richmond62]

Does the device come with drivers?

No.

However, buttons 4 and 5, when clicked produce this:
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in my web-browser (Waterfox) and, when release allow me to scroll up
and down the page.

[FourthWorld]

That looks like what I see when using a scroll wheel, which does indeed generate key values trappable with rawKeyDown. You might want to double-check that your rawKeyDown handler is in play when testing it; if no drivers are needed, key events are probably what's being sent for the non-standard buttons.

[dunbarx]

I assume that the Logitech gadget provides a driver.

And one of the buttons on my mouse generates the same value via rawKeyDown as another, even though it does something completely different.

But isn't it so that if any of those buttons perform a function that is unique to that button, then it must generate a unique code somewhere? And whether rawKeyDown can catch it is another story?

I will try to document them all when I get back to my office.

Craig

[FourthWorld]

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

[mwieder]

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



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