Microsoft Tilt Wheel

[itsoul]

Has anyone played with the Microsoft Tilt Wheel mice? I've just got one and am trying to get the tilt wheel to act as forward and back under Internet Explorer! There seems to be nothing available under the Intelipoint software except for enabling scrolling.

Ta

ITS

 

[bcastner]

Hold down the left Shift key while you scroll the wheel.

 

[itsoul]

Thanks bcastner.

I've used that shortcut before. As well as being able to scroll the wheel up and down, the new microsoft mice come with the ability to scroll the wheel mecanism left and right. This is handy if you've a large web page or spread sheet, however I'm trying to work out a way to get the left and right scroll to work as forward and back.

Ta

ITS

 

[bcastner]

I understand. I played with the thing a few weeks ago. I think you would have to right your own device driver to change the feature set.

 

[itsoul]

Thanks... back to the shop it is then! )

Joking aside, I'm sure enough people will find this problem and there'll be an update for intellimouse soon enough.

Thankfully I bought it for the wireless capability which funtions admirably.

Thanks again

ITS

 

[bcastner]

I got my first wireless optical mouse roughly a year ago (MS Optical Explorer?)

I had no special need for wireless, I thought.

I love the damn thing.

I never knew exactly what bothered me about mice, but the lack of a cord makes a world of difference. I cannot tell you how much more pleasant using a Mouse with no cords has made for me sense of this interface device.

Way, way back when in the introduction of Windows 3.1 there was a piece about the rollout in InfoWorld where "

"a "developer ran over and over the Mouse to the far ends of the screen, muttering: 'they have a Mickey control here that is not published' while the Microsoft representative just grinned. 'He is not going to break the Mouse interface,' he claimed, 'you cannot believe the number of programmer hours spent on this.' As he left the developer was overhead saying 'Not bad. You can still generate an exception from leaving the Hot Spot feature enabled, but not bad at all.' When I left, the guy dutifully created an Exception Error that stopped the system for the Microsoft rep. Overall, most were pleased with the inclusion of the Mouse as an interface."

It was me.

 

[itsoul]

If anyone else has a comment on the Tilt Wheel technology and how, and if, it is possible to modify the funtionality then I'd much appreciate it.

Regards

ITS

 

[bcastner]

It is not in the Intellimouse feature set for the driver. Either write your own or wait. I mean this nicely. It is not possible with the current driver set to implement the feature you are asking for.

It is also not clear that it will be implemented. The customization as you would like has not been seen since Driver release 4.1. There has been a lot of requests, but MS has been silent on the issue.

Intellipoint 5.0 is empty of this sort of customization, and I suspect the message is that you will not be able to change the behavior.

This is as far as I am concerned understandable (no, not desirable, understandable). Increasingly the context in which any mouse (or other peripheral) takes place is too hard to track reliably. And the underlying servie support for context changes between programs is primitive or non-existant.

You can see the possibilities with a web search on Longhorn, and the property sheet assembled by the newer user interface.

There simply is not enough information passed with current Windows programs for the mouse to be unambiguos about the focus, and context, of a right to left wheel motion.

Bill