Comments on: OpenOffice Mouse Features 18 Buttons And A Joystick

By: uberRegenbogen

uberRegenbogen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 06:09:22 +0000

That's the rub that i have with my 7-button Razer. I use the 4th & 5th buttons as ctrl & shift. Unfortunately, there's no way to make the 6th & 7th buttons accessible to software (as anything other than redundant scrollwheel signals) without loading its 'driver' which crashes my system. Interestingly, simple reassignment happens inside the mouse, and persists even after the 'driver' has been removed; so if only i could find some little utility that assigns the buttons to something that AutoHotkey can use, then just exits, i'd be smiling about it.

It would rock if the extra buttons (beyond 5) showed up as game control buttons (which almost seems likely with this monster), as there are lots of things (including AutoHotkey and Ventrilo) that can work with those directly.

Do it that way, make the joystick relocatable to the other side (i usually mouse left-handed), and give it an isometric (TrackPoint-oid) nubbie for scrolling, and this would my dream mouse. (If the latter is what the joystick does, then i'd want it on top.)

By: uberRegenbogen

uberRegenbogen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:09:22 +0000

By: yago_potato

yago_potato — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:39:39 +0000

playing “CS” crap i died pushed 10 buttons lol

By: Zotel

Zotel — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:22:18 +0000

Way too much. I find 2 buttons and my scroll wheel plenty. I can barely use the “back” button I have on this MS mouse.

By: Nikkita Croix

Nikkita Croix — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:58:16 +0000

I've had mice with more that a few buttons before, the biggest problem with them isn't that there is too many buttons, but that the program you want to use the mouse with doesn't recognize that your mouse has that many buttons. When this mouse comes out, I hope that the driver that controls all of those functions and buttons is more compatible and stable than the others I've used. Maybe being open source will help it out and new programs will have native support for high buttoned mice.

By: obi1kenobi1

obi1kenobi1 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:04:18 +0000

You mean this is real? It isn't just a joke about open source software?

By: chaosoldier

chaosoldier — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:56:15 +0000

this is an interesting concept, but like many others have already said I find that keyboard shortcuts and macros are more useful and helpful.

By: EspritOuvert

EspritOuvert — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:13:37 +0000

I find myself accidentally clicking the right button often enough just when my hand is resting on my mouse. This would be a disaster for me.

By: Jessicat

Jessicat — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:06:26 +0000

I agree, I suppose this is for someone with a lot of macros… I can see myself accidentally pressing a button and having it auto replacing things. Yea not for me. Less is more for me.

By: Tosh

Tosh — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:03:01 +0000

wow, overkill, lol.