GBPVR mouse support

[tismondo]

Hello -

I use my bluetooth Wireless Mouse instead of a remote but Im finding that support for this in GBPVR is lacking. Since a mouse does not have a built in back button like the remote does, navigating menus is becoming very difficult. For example, when adding a city using the Weather plugin, I can't navigate backwards to change a country if I accidently select the wrong one.

Other plugins such as the My ____ plugins suffer from this problem. Rather than plead to have all the plugin developers change their interfaces to always include a shortcut backwards, wouldnt it be simpler to have the right mouse button universally serve this function? Is there a way to program GBPVR to do this without waiting for a new version of the program?

In general, a stronger ability to customize the functions of the GBPVR mouse, remote, and keyboard buttons would be very useful.

If theres no way to fix this, consider this a feature request.

Thanks

EDIT: originally wrote this post as a plugin feature request and forgot to change the forum when i rewrote it. Sorry for posting in the plugin/skin forum since this doesnt really fit here.

[daphatty]

You could achieve your desired results through Windows. Simply assign the ESC key to one of your mouse buttons and voila! You have your back button.

EDIT: One thing to keep in mind is that GBPVR doesn't attempt to reinvent the wheel. If Windows can already do it then GBPVR will "pass the buck" if you will.

[tismondo]

Thanks for responding so quickly.

I think my problem gets a little more complicated than that, though. You see specific button assignments arent native to Windows. The software that came with my mouse is not compatible with Windows 2K, so I cant use it to reassign mouse button commands.

Still, even if the software was compatible, the option to reassign a mouse button to 'escape' key doesnt exist. (I have the same software installed on an XP computer - theres no way to make a mouse button work as an escape key, at least not with a Microsoft Bluetooth Mouse...)

So... Theres no way I can reassign the button in the control panel. Is there another possibility?

-b

[daphatty]

You are in luck. Microsoft has their Intellipoint software for free. You can download it here:

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/downlo...fault.mspx

And here is a link to instructions on how to program the buttons:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=912079&SD=tech

[ejeffers]

Your in luck in again, in that 96.08 gives the Right-Click of a mouse the same function as 'Back' or 'esc' on a keyboard.