m$oft Intellimouse

Hi John

What setting in the mouse driver did you change, just curious?

John Layne

"John Layne" >

I didn't change any settings. After clicking on the wheel tab, there is a choice to run the troubleshooter for the mouse wheel. There is a little note that some software has problems with the wheel, and that running the troubleshooter fixes many of these problems. After opening the troubleshooter, it just asks you to open the program having the problem, and it fixes it automatically.

Then go back to the troubleshooter and it asks you if the problem was fixed. (it was)

jk

I think the most amazing part of this story is that the troubleshooter ACTUALLY shot the trouble!!!

Muggs

I think this may be the first documented instace.

Exactly what I thought-that's why I posted it..........

They probably put the bug in the code to give the troubleshooter programmer something to do.

Now if they could just fix the code so I can assign the esc key to the little thumb button to my Bluetooth Intellimouse explorer, driver 5.2. I used to be able to, with my old intellimouse (non bluetooth) with driver

I wonder if the Logitech mice have such a limitation, unfortunatley I haven't been able to find out.

John Layne

I don't have an intellimouse, but I used to do tech support for resellers. This is a pretty common question, and anyone who has done tech support for more than a month should know the answer. The problem is that when the scrollbars in SolidWorks are activated by the part getting close to the borders of the graphics window, the middle mouse button turns into a pan instead of a rotate. The way to fix this manually without the troubleshooter is to disable the driver for the SolidWorks application. That's probably why it is asking you to open the problem app. The reason why a service pack reenacts the problem is that the original executable is deleted, and the "sldworks.exe" file is how the driver identifies which app to be disabled for.

Interesting - I used to have that problem all the time with my old intellimouse, I don't get the problem with the new one.

However if I could swap that problem for not being able to assign the escape key to the small thumb button, I happily would.

John Layne

Over the years I think I have tried just about every "pointing device" known. Consistantly, Logitech rises above everything else. I am currently using the "MX Laser". A little pricey, but it has a nice feel and is rock solid (USB charger and RF unit is handy as well. Battery life is fantastic). Drivers are always very good as well (however, why they want to include links to eBay and such on install burns my ass...). Regardless of the fact that it is "Microsoft" (who of course OEM's from some cheap company) I have had more trouble with these than I care to think.

Also using a Cadman from 3DConnexion (another Logitech company); though I only use it with SW, it is very handy as well.

Mike Tripoli

That makes perfect sense. Thanks for that Matt. My VAR's tech support acted like I was from another planet when I asked them about this.

jk

Just checked out the MX laser online, can you assign the escape key to one of thumb buttons?

John Layne

I will check and let you know.

Mike Tripoli

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 08:19:53 +1200, John Layne

No. I just checked, and it does not have that as an option. You can do just about everything else... another example of "some guy" out there trying to protect us from ourselves...(I see no reason that you can't do this; someone said "If you map the escape key to the thumb, people will always hit it accidently" - "Ok, don't give them the option..."). Mike Tripoli

Thanks for checking that out for me, I would have been disappointed if I had to buy to find that out!

John Layne