Double Click Mouse Wheel Button Different

[John Ciccone]

I have the mouse wheel button assigned to double click. This works well on
all computers and software except Office 2003.

When I have the File Open dialog box up, I select a file, and press down on
the wheel button. Anywhere else it would be like double clicking and make the
file would open.

Nothing happens in the Office dlg boxes. (So I end up sitting there. Staring.)

Can I change the behaviour to be like other apps?

Thank you.

 

[Val]

You're not alone in this - I also have this problem in Office file dialogs.
Sometimes it works right, mostly not. Other double-click actions in Office
seem to work fine from the wheel button.

I don't recall any solution ever being offered.

Val

 

[James Silverton]

Val wrote on Sun, 8 Jul 2007 14:22:19 -0600:

V> I don't recall any solution ever being offered.

V> Val

V> in message
??>> I have the mouse wheel button assigned to double click.
??>> This works well on all computers and software except
??>> Office 2003.
??>>
??>> When I have the File Open dialog box up, I select a file,
??>> and press down on the wheel button. Anywhere else it would
??>> be like double clicking and make the file would open.
??>>
??>> Nothing happens in the Office dlg boxes. (So I end up
??>> sitting there. Staring.)
??>>
??>> Can I change the behaviour to be like other apps?
??>>
??>> Thank you.

One possibility might be to adjust the sensitivity to a faster
or slower double click. It's a bit indirect since you are not
actually adjusting mouse's double click speed but setting
windows to detect it.

Control Panel> Printers and other Hardware > Mouse

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

 

[Val]

Hmm, that might help, except the Logitech Mouseware driver doesn't have a
double-click speed setting!

Talk about a catch 22. You can set the speed in basic Windows mouse driver,
but you can't set wheel button to double-click. Use the mouse's good
driver, loose the double-click sensitivity control.

Why can't MS just make their basic driver recognize that the wheels are
almost always a button as well, been that way for a dozen years now!

Val

 

[XS11E]

Hmm, that might help, except the Logitech Mouseware driver doesn't
have a double-click speed setting!

I'm running MSFT's Intellipoint software and it does have a speed
setting which does NOT solve the problem even if set maximum slow.

Talk about a catch 22. You can set the speed in basic Windows
mouse driver, but you can't set wheel button to double-click. Use
the mouse's good driver, loose the double-click sensitivity
control.

"Good driver?" I'm using Intellipoint with a compatible mouse because
I can't use my Logitech mouse in Vista 64, Setpoint conflicts with
other software. Logitech promised a fix but it hasn't happened yet...

Why can't MS just make their basic driver recognize that the
wheels are almost always a button as well, been that way for a
dozen years now!

Irrational fear of third buttons? Why will the third button work in
Intellipoint but not with the included drivers in Vista or XP, figure
that one out!?!?!?!