Logitech Mx 900 Bluetooth Optical Mouse
<div class="IPBDescription">need help</div> What are these mouse keys called? i know the side buttons are called, "MOUSE4" and "MOUSE5" but what are these top ones called? I need them for more binds in ns <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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that's just TOO many buttons...
Also AFAIK mice only go up to MOUSE5, so the other buttons are probably emulated keypresses via the drivers. That's what they did with 4 and 5 button mice before MOUSE4 and MOUSE5 became standard.
Because it it were possible, it would be those buttons.
Sure, it looks pretty, feels solid, glides well and promises wireless freedom. But these things are useless if it's making you waste time and energy when you should be instinctively communicating with your machine, not fighting with the damned thing.
Switched back to my Microsoft Trackball Optical. Serious control is restored. Not happy that the newest drivers won't allow me to bind keyboard key functions to the buttons, though, but I'll survive. At least I can move from pixel to pixel without having to waste seconds readjusting [in games or graphics].
The keyboard that came with the MX 900 [in the package I got] is adequate. It's nice to be able to move around [I hold it on my lap while typing], but its keys can jump [skip entire words, pretend as if the entire time you were holding down one key, et cetera] occasionally if I'm turned a little too much and the signal can't find the receiver for some reason. I find the binds possible on the special keys are a little limitted, but it's nice to be able to just hit the Play button and have Winamp engage and start playing without having to do any more clicking. Some keys do not seem to work as they should. I figured it was a symptom of having not plugged in the receiver's PS\2 plug, but that didn't help either. The receiver should be smart enough to emulate a wired keyboard's signals. After all, it is getting power not from the USB, but from the wall. I liked hitting Ctrl-Esc to restart my PC after shutting down.
The keypresses are much smoother and gentler than the Microsoft Intellipoint keyboard I was using previously, but it lacks Web functions. The newby-friendly key markings are a little distracting if I look at the thing, but it's a comfortable shape for the way I use it.
Wolf's Final Word on the Subject: Scrap the MX 900 mouse. I'm sorry you wasted money on it. It's liable to be practically impossible to center your crosshairs in any games without just flat-out wasting too much time to be worth the wireless freedom. And you can forget doing any kind of graphics work involving pixels unless you're zoomed in as bloody far as you can go [which I'll do by choice, but I hate being forced to just so the thing won't jump too far, which it still is liable to do too often]. The keyboard's worth keeping [if you got it], however, and does not suck up nearly as much electricity as the mouse, so you won't be changing its batteries often.
2) The 2 buttons above and below the mousewheel are mwheelup and mwheeldown. In order to bind these you have to also bind the mousewheel. The second button below the wheel doesn't do anything in half life.