Mouse wheel button reassign

[LucasBS]

My mouse wheel is damaged.

To overcome it, I'd like to set Zoom Realtime to Shift+Mouse Wheel Click.

Can this be done ?

Currently, Mouse Wheel Click does PAN. That is not to be changed.

Also: What is button 2... 3... 4... 5... on the customize menu ? Why do they begin at 2 ?

Why so many numbers ? Never saw a mouse with more than 5 buttons

[pendean]

MBUTTONPAN command, look up usage in HELP: and... only your mouse driver can control your mouse buttons ad their functions beyond that.

May I ask, why not just get a new cheap wired mouse to move on with your day?

[LucasBS]

MBUTTONPAN has a vague description

Value	Description
0	Supports the action defined in the customization file
1	Supports panning when you hold and drag the button or wheel

And for the little I could understand from it, it can disable the PAN from the button. Well... No. PAN should stay as it is.

And it already ""supports"" the commands I set on the customization:

I assigned Zoom Realtime to Shift+Button2 and Shift+Button3, but instead of simply zooming when I drag the mouse, it enters on zoom command, and stays there until I press ESC. Unlike Wheel mouse click, that PANs and then leaves PAN.

I like this mouse.

[pendean]

One more time...
"... only your mouse driver can control your mouse buttons ad their functions beyond that."

[LucasBS]

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@pendean wrote:
One more time...
"... only your mouse driver can control your mouse buttons ad their functions beyond that."

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Left click will always be left click
Right click will always be right click
Wheel click will always be wheel click

The driver cannot change these just as science cannot turn a banana into an apple

Autocad decides what the left click does
Autocad decides what the right click does
Autocad decides what the wheel does
Autocad decides what the wheel click does
Autocad decides what the Shift+Wheel click does.

And THAT one I need to change.

Who's willing to help ?

[Patchy · Accepted solution]

I'd like to set Zoom Realtime to Shift+Mouse Wheel Click.

Get a new mouse that has options to assign buttons, there isn't any options in Autocad.

You're asking to get the impossible.

[LucasBS]

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@Patchy wrote:

there isn't any options in Autocad.

THAT is an answer that would have saved trouble.

Thank you.

Too bad that your picture is only valid for the few mouses that DO have such option.

Good you didn't try to make the rule out of the exception.

[pendean]

>>>...The driver cannot change these ...<<<
@LucasBS Then get a mouse and driver that can do that. They are out there.

One more time...
"... only your mouse driver can control your mouse buttons and their functions beyond that."

[LucasBS]

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@pendean wrote:
"... only your mouse driver can control your mouse buttons and their functions beyond that."

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YOUR mouse driver can do that. Not mine. Don't make a rule out of an exception.

Why does everyone think mouses fall from trees ?
The cheapest ones here cost a thirtieth (1/30) of a minimum salary. The cheapest ! Plug and play. Wired. No bells nor whistles.

But thanks anyway for trying.

[JCKRU47]

Where are you that you can't get a simple mouse for less then 10 dollars? Also, if you work for a company why are they not providing you with a mouse that works? If you are your own employer why are you complaining that you have to buy a new mouse? If a carpenter broke a hammer they would have to buy a new one no matter the cost or how much money they had on them.

[LucasBS]

This is bigger. We don't have your "its scratched → throw it away" culture.

Autocad is only a fraction of what I do on the PC, and the defective mouse works fine for the rest. No reason to get rid of it if there is a workaround.

To me, it's cheap.

But of broken mouses, cheap or expensive (they all break), I have a pile on the drawer.

[JCKRU47]

Not to poke a bear, but this went from asking for solutions (which plenty were given even if you didn't like them) to a holier than thou argument real quick. No one said throw anything away and no one is bashing your work practice, but to drive the point home it is genuinely mouse driver based to change the setting you want to change. No one said your mouse had that option, only that it's the only way to change that.

[pendean]

@LucasBS
>>>...My mouse wheel is damaged....<<<
>>>...The cheapest ones here cost a thirtieth (1/30) of a minimum salary...<<<
Life blows sometimes. Good luck.

[LucasBS]

No bears were bothered...

But

I'd like to explain why I insisted (or, "why I didn't like the answers"):

It's simple actually: I never seen all those options on a mouse before. I  repeat: NEVER. And did I mention I have a pile of mouses laying around ?

So, by then, either the colleague @pendean did not understand my question, or worse, he gone nuts, making options in his head that simply didn't exist.

Minutes after, Patchy showed that such options DO exist.

In the end, it's down to a regional matter.

Where you guys live, these options are very typical, it seems.

As part of my job, I fix computers (from modest companies up to sophisticated gamers), and never came across those options.

Naturally, for this reason, the provided answers made zero sense to me, and at the same time made perfect sense to you.
None of us was "wrong", if we have to put it that way.