Apple mouse middle button script

Hello all,

How can I configure an Apple (Mighty) Mouse to run a script when a particular mouse button is pressed? Rather than running the script, it just opens the script in the Script Editor.

My script is something like this:

tell application "System Events" key code 123 using {command down} end

intended simply to browse back in Safari and Chrome when pressing the middle mouse button.

Many thanks

MBP13 2.7GHz 8GB 512SSD, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Feb 13, 2018 7:11 AM

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