hasses@prism.cs.orst.edu (Stephen Haase) (05/08/91)
Well, I finally got fed up with my screwed up Apple mouse and went out and bought a new one. The one I got it the A3 mouse by Mouse Systems. It is a nice feeling optical mouse with 3 programmable buttons. Well, almost programmable. My problem is this, I want the left button to be a simple mouse click, the middle button to be a double click, and the right button to be an option click. I thought this would be easy to do when I read the advertisement in the ad I saw. No such luck. The CDEV that you program only allows keyboard commands to be entered, not mouse clicks. So it would be easy to have a button be open-apple O, but having a double click is a little tougher. I thought I could get around it by using QuickKeys. I would have the button be the keyboard equivalent to Open-Apple-F1, and in QuickKeys, I would have Open-Apple-F1 be a macro for a double click. Sounds easy right? Well it is, sort of. If I do the above procedure and reboot, it will work for awhile. Then all of a sudden it will stop working. The left button will still be a single mouse click but the middle and right revert to their default commands(which are the left and right arrow keys) To correct this, I need to reboot once again. I have ruled out application incompatabilities since it once stopped working while I was in the finder and had no programs running in the background. Another problem with this CDEV that they give you is that if you place it in your Control Panel folder(I'm running system 7.0fc2 BTW) and reboot, it will disable about 2/3 of my inits. It also requires that the QuickKeys applaication be in the system folder instead of the Extensions folder. I'm running a //ci, system 7.0fc2, quickkeys 1.2, and 3-Button Power 1.0(the CDEV that comes with the mouse) If anyone can help me with this I would much appreciate it, I really like the mouse(it feels MUCH better than the one supplied to me by Apple) Steve hasses@prism.cs.orst.edu