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Davio
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Jamaica
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 Posted - 03 November 2002 : 13:47:48
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| Gremlin, went through what you explained, but I'm not sure which MS driver supports a 3 button mouse. And when I did select one, it warned me saying "the product you select is not compatable with the product you are using. do you still want to install?" or something along those lines. I choose no for now. |
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
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Posted - 03 November 2002 : 14:08:41
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A bit off topic I know, but I thought 3 buttons nice were no longer manufactured. I remember early versions of Windows put them to some use (don't remember any longer what they were good for). At that time pretty much all mice that shipped with computers had 3 buttons. I haven't seen a 3 button mouse for quite a while... (maybe that's because even my mice are from Microsoft now  ). |
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red1
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Posted - 03 November 2002 : 14:58:43
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maybe that's because even my mice are from Microsoft now
oh no, you've succumbed to the evil.  seriously though they make good mice; that wireless intellimouse explorer looks sweet, and I plan to get it as soon as I have the money. |
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ruirib
Snitz Forums Admin
Portugal
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Posted - 03 November 2002 : 15:29:18
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| Agreed, they make very good mice. And they recently came up with a new line of mice that includes some very interesting products (all of them have only two buttons, though ). |
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pdrg
Support Moderator
United Kingdom
2897 Posts |
Posted - 04 November 2002 : 06:42:26
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Wireless intellimice are ace - the scrolly-button does various magic things such as forward/back in ie, lots of scrolling in many m'oft apps, font grow/shrink (with shift or alt or one of those held) in ie, etc.
The 3rd button was used a lot by graphics apps years ago - i think autocad used to use it, for instance. |
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seahorse
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 04 November 2002 : 21:34:24
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My mouse at work is from IBM. The third button is used for the scroll function. It also has that annoying non-clickable little thumbstick you see on all of the notebooks instead of the little clickable wheel on the MS mice. I hate it.
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
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Posted - 07 November 2002 : 14:57:43
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All mice I've had were Logitech, and they've all had three buttons. With the introduction of the scroll wheel, the "middle button" moved to the left side of the mouse and became an extra button, which I use for "enter".
I used to have a cheap 5 button mouse for a while (less than a week because it was too darned small for my hand and the buttons were pressed when I didn't want to press them), and all buttons could be assigned a specific function.
I haven't used a mouse in a while though. For the past months I've been using a Wacom Intuos2 graphics tablet with pen, which is absolutely great, if you can afford it. Yesterday I bought a huge graphics tablet by Medion (never heard of them though) for only 50 euro. It's not as nice as the Wacom tablet and requires a battery in the pen (the Wacom pens are cordless and don't need a battery), but for home use it's perfect. |
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Reinsnitz
Snitz Forums Admin
USA
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Posted - 08 November 2002 : 14:05:35
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| I'm a logitech mouse person, but the 3rd button is priceless... use it in games, speacial features and everything... in Unix based OS's it's a gem too ;) |
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VodkaFish
Average Member
USA
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Posted - 09 November 2002 : 02:26:09
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I've also had logitech as the maker of my last few mice. Currently I'm using a wireless keyboard/mouse combo where the mouse is an optical.
I've found the third button on any mouse I've had is commonly set to just be a double-click (of the standard button). I like the scroll wheel, but not the scroll button (when you press it down and then move the mouse).
My current set uses batteries. The keyboard, although used more, needs to be replaced far less then the mouse. I'm in assumption that the optical light sucks the energy from those things. My old wireless mouse went through batteries far less often. Either way, I'm very happy with it. |
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Davio
Development Team Member
Jamaica
12217 Posts |
Posted - 09 November 2002 : 03:23:51
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*Davio walks back inot his topic and points all users who started off topic conversations, to the door* 
Anways, I'm glad you all have nice little mice from microsoft or wherever that has a 3rd button and works, but my new mouse 3rd button doesn't.
The support guys that I emailed about this hasn't replied at all, so I can forget about them. I guess I just have to sit and read great stories about snitz users who had or have great 3 button mice that works, and what they use it for, and wish I could do that too. |
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ruirib
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
9335 Posts |
Posted - 09 November 2002 : 07:56:05
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Originally posted by VodkaFish
My current set uses batteries. The keyboard, although used more, needs to be replaced far less then the mouse. I'm in assumption that the optical light sucks the energy from those things. My old wireless mouse went through batteries far less often. Either way, I'm very happy with it.
It's indeed the combination of cordless and optical that drains the batteries so fast. That's why Logitech stole the idea from Trust to put rechargable batteries in one of their newer mouse models, and supply a charger/cradle with it. That way you simply stick it in the cradle when you're done with work and when you have to get started again, it's recharged.
Here's the info on that mouse. |
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
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Posted - 09 November 2002 : 08:08:41
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| I wired an Off switch to my Logitech Cordless Optical mouse to save batteries a little :) |
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Roland
Advanced Member
Netherlands
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Posted - 09 November 2002 : 08:14:07
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I think Microsoft added a pressure sensative button to the bottom of (one of) their cordless optical mice so they don't "work" unless you put your hand on the mouse. That should work too and doesn't require ANOTHER gadget cluttering your desk, because the charger-cradle of that Logitech mouse obviously is connected to your computer, so you'll still have a cable on your desk to connect a cordless mouse  But then again, the cradle is probably also the receiver for the radio signals, so it doesn't matter all that much.
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Gremlin
General Help Moderator
New Zealand
7528 Posts |
Posted - 09 November 2002 : 08:29:11
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| Thats just given me a great idea :) I'll wire in a touch or possibly light sensor in place of the little Logitech badge on the top of the mouse :) .. great you've just given me a little something to play with in the morning. |
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