Can Girder be a better mouse driver?

[iric]

Hi,

I've got a Kensington mouse which has by far the best mouse driver I've seen. The 3 features I can't live without are:

- program specefic button settings
- assignment of any keyboard sequence to a mouse button
- assigning tasks when 2 buttons are pressed simultaneously

On the other hand I find the Microsoft and Logitech mice more comfortable to use. So I've been trying to find an application that would give me these mouse features without being tied to a specific hardware manufacturer. The only program I've come across that might work is Girder. I downloaded the program and the mouse plugin and couldn't get it to work. However, after reading the FAQ I'm not so sure Girder will do what I want it to do. So I'm hoping someone here can tell me if it can, otherwise I won't spend time learning this program.

The FAQ seemed to suggest that Girder can't tell what window currently has the focus, and if that is the case, there would be no easy way to program buttons in a program specific way. Changing profiles on opening or closing applications won't cut it since I would need the button assignments to change dynamically between several open programs. So is this possible or am I walking down a dead end?

Thanks in advance,
iRic

[Selyb]

I've got a Kensington mouse which has by far the best mouse driver I've seen. The 3 features I can't live without are:

- program specefic button settings
- assignment of any keyboard sequence to a mouse button
- assigning tasks when 2 buttons are pressed simultaneously

a driver is very different from the software that handles these actions
have you tried using the hardware you like while still using the kensington software?


The FAQ seemed to suggest that Girder can't tell what window currently has the focus

afaik girder only has a problem giving a specific window focus when girder does not have focus

ill tell you how i have my Logitech mouseman set up
i run win2vnc which lets me move my mouse between monitors of side by side pc's as if they were multi-monitors on the same vid card
win2vnc will not pass the thumb button or wheel scrolling

using the latest mouse plugin i block windows default action for the thumb button
when i press the thumb button alt+left is sent to the foreground window
when i hold the thumb button and press right click alt+right is sent to foreground window and alt+left is not sent
when i switch to win2vnc girder turns on wheel support group
when i scroll up or down local girder checks forground window and if it is win2vnc it sends 'scroll up/down' message to girder running on other computer and remote girder sends scroll up/down to foreground window
if foreground window is not win2vnc then it disables wheel support group

you can trust that girder can do everything that whatever software you're using can do and very very much more (except switch focus)
it just isnt as easy to configure
you can always ask here for help though :)