4 and 5 mouse buttons

[makeshyft]

hi everyone,

I have used another mouse to death, and I bought a new one today that has a forward and back navigation buttons....works in browser....

mouseUp messages do not register the extra buttons... neither does rawkeydown

is there anything i can do to get livecode to recognize these so that I can give them functionality?

Thanks as always

[FourthWorld]

How do other apps handle it?

[makeshyft]

My chrome based browser lets me go forward and back..... so the driver is registering the clicks..... I thought rawkey would do it...but no cigar.....

[jacque]

Do you get keycodes in a rawKeyUp handler?

[LCNeil]

Have a look at the message watcher as well to see if any messages fired when pressing these buttons.

From within the LiveCode IDE "Devlopment-->Message Watcher"

Kind Regards,

Neil Roger
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LiveCode Support Team ~ http://www.livecode.com
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[makeshyft]

that was a good idea.....there are no messages sent .... maybe i will add a feature request to the quality control site.

[Thierry]

that was a good idea.....there are no messages sent ....

Out of curiosity, are you on a Mac or a PC?

Regards,

Thierry

[makeshyft]

Windows 7 64

[quailcreek]

Does this give an answer?

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   on mouseUp theButton
      answer theButton
   end mouseUp

[FourthWorld]

If the device doesn't require custom drivers I'd double-check rawKeyDown. What was the code you used to test that?

[SparkOut]

On Windows 10 here with LC 7.1.1 using a 5-button Microsoft USB IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 mouse, I get no rawkeydown message from any of the buttons at all, except for the scroll wheel (counts as one of the buttons). I get code 65308 from the scroll down action and 65309 from the scroll up action (as described in the Dictionary). rawkeyup does not provide ANY value.
Depressing the scroll wheel generates the mouseDown/mouseUp/usual mouseMessages.
The two buttons on the left side of the mouse generate no messages at all in my view here.

[FourthWorld]

Ah, I missed that this was a Microsoft product. Probably relies on custom OS level support. Still, would be interesting to see what their developer docs suggest. Have you looked those up?

[SparkOut]

No because I was only wondering how it worked on my system to check against the OP's experience.

I have found that the Microsoft Mouse and Keyboard Centre allows you to assign app-specific actions to the different buttons. I haven't tried in a standalone but the IDE will respond to buttons to which I assign key combinations. (Works with keydown and rawkeydown that way)