"3 button mouse required"

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"3 button mouse required"

Hi... sorry but this is a really obvious question.

I bought the Apple Pro Training Series Book on Color and it says on page xvii : "be sure that your ... mouse settings in your System Preferences are configured so... the middle button is set to "Button 3.""

I can't find this under the 'mouse' tab of the keyboard and mouse settings. The only ting I can see is a choice to ahve your primary mouse button as the left or right buttons of the mouse.

I am using a Logitech mouse that has a clickable scroll wheel in the middle which should be ok to use but I can't see any way to set it to be sure.

Any advice out there for a learner?

MacBook Pro, Core 2 Duo 2.4 MHz, Mac OS X (10.5.6), 2.0GB RAM

Posted on Apr 19, 2009 10:27 AM

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Answer 1

hanumang

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Apr 19, 2009 10:39 AM in response to Crazy

OS X recognizes most third-party mice (those with the clickable scroll-wheels, at least) as having three buttons by default, so I think you should be good to go. In other words, clicking the scroll wheel should perform the Button 3 action.

Or are you asking this question because when you click your scroll wheel in, say, the Finder, it activates Dashboard? (which is not what you want)

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Answer 2

Kappy

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Apr 19, 2009 10:41 AM in response to Crazy

For any ability to assign the mouse buttons to actions you will need to either install the Logitech Control Center software (current version is 2.7) or SteerMouse - VersionTracker or MacUpdate. You can then assign specific functions to the mouse buttons, but not which buttons on the mouse correspond to a specific button such as button 3. The scroll wheel button may be button 5 or something else, but you can still assign a function to that button. My suggestion is to use SteerMouse rather than the Logitech software.

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Answer 3

Crazy Author

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Apr 19, 2009 12:05 PM in response to Crazy

Thanks heaps guys... looks like the scroll wheel is working automatically.

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Answer 4

Crazy Author

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Apr 19, 2009 12:28 PM in response to Crazy

Thanks heaps guys... OSX automatically assigned the scroll wheel as the middle button.

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