UltraNav Middle Click Button & Scroll

[MidnightSun]

So up until now, I've been using my UltraNav middle-click button with "advanced features" disabled, meaning no magnification or scrolling use - this is because I always use the middle-click button to open a link in a new tab, navigate around Google Sketchup, and it's a handy button in general.

However, I have recently tried out the TrackPoint scrolling along with the middle-click button's scrolling feature, and it's very useful. When I enable the feature, however, it uses clicks of the middle button as a toggle to turn the scrolling on or off, and does not allow middle-clicking of links anymore.

I was wondering whether it is possible at all to use the TrackPoint scrolling along with the middle-click button?

[jaredy]

Smooth scrolling needs to be set. I use the middle button to scroll and to open and close tabs.

[MidnightSun]

Smooth scrolling needs to be set. I use the middle button to scroll and to open and close tabs.

Ah, well smooth scrolling is just the conventional press-in-middle-button-on-mouse scroller thing. I prefer the standard scroller, the one with the small gray vertical bar with the mouse pointer. Any way to still use that along with the middle click function?

Thanks for the answer though.

[godbreath]

what i did was, i set the the trackpoint middle button to the default scrolling
then, i set a tap zone on the top left corner of the touchpad to act as the conventional middle click button. i then just have to move my right thumb 1 cm to tap the button to open links, and still have the trackpoint middle button scrolling

[MidnightSun]

Slightly-more-than-three-month-bump

I was wondering whether anyone has any more insight into this issue. I recently found another thread on NBR of someone who has the exact same issue as me. Unfortunately, no resolution in that thread

[aznguyphan]

Note sure if anyone still cares about this, but I wanted to do exactly what MidnightSun does and I have a sort of a working solution. It's a bit long winded and...improvised but it works.

Basically I found a script on the Autohotkey forum that emulates a scroll wheel when you hold down a button and move in the x or y direction. The result was good, but it made the cursor jittery because the script tries to keep your cursor in its original place but it still allows for movement. So I solved this by hiding the cursor while scrolling (a work around to the work around...).

If you just want to run a script exe then download the attachment, unzip it to a place of your preference and add a shortcut to it in your Startup folder.

Install Steps (If you want to be able to edit the script):

You need Autohotkey installed.

Copy/paste code into .ahk file with Notepad.

$*MButton::

Hotkey, $*MButton Up, MButtonup, off
KeyWait, MButton, T0.2
If ErrorLevel = 1
{
	Hotkey, $*MButton Up, MButtonup, on
	MouseGetPos, ox, oy
 	SetTimer, WatchTheMouse, 1
	SystemCursor("Toggle")
}
Else
	Send {MButton}
return

MButtonup:
Hotkey, $*MButton Up, MButtonup, off
SetTimer, WatchTheMouse, off
SystemCursor("Toggle")
return

WatchTheMouse:
MouseGetPos, nx, ny
dy := ny-oy
dx := nx-ox
If (dx**2 > 0 and dx**2>dy**2) ;edit 4 for sensitivity (changes sensitivity to movement)
{
	times := Abs(dy)/1 ;edit 1 for sensitivity (changes frequency of scroll signal)
	Loop, %times%
	{
		If (dx > 0)
			Click WheelRight
		Else
			Click WheelLeft
   	}
}
If (dy**2 > 0 and dy**2>dx**2) ;edit 0 for sensitivity (changes sensitivity to movement)
{
	times := Abs(dy)/1 ;edit 1 for sensitivity (changes frequency of scroll signal)
	Loop, %times% 
	{
		If (dy > 0)
			Click WheelDown
		Else
			Click WheelUp
	}   
}
MouseMove ox, oy
return

SystemCursor(OnOff=1)   ; INIT = "I","Init"; OFF = 0,"Off"; TOGGLE = -1,"T","Toggle"; ON = others
{
    static AndMask, XorMask, $, h_cursor
        ,c0,c1,c2,c3,c4,c5,c6,c7,c8,c9,c10,c11,c12,c13 ; system cursors
        , b1,b2,b3,b4,b5,b6,b7,b8,b9,b10,b11,b12,b13   ; blank cursors
        , h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,h7,h8,h9,h10,h11,h12,h13   ; handles of default cursors
    if (OnOff = "Init" or OnOff = "I" or $ = "")       ; init when requested or at first call
    {
        $ = h                                          ; active default cursors
        VarSetCapacity( h_cursor,4444, 1 )
        VarSetCapacity( AndMask, 32*4, 0xFF )
        VarSetCapacity( XorMask, 32*4, 0 )
        system_cursors = 32512,32513,32514,32515,32516,32642,32643,32644,32645,32646,32648,32649,32650
        StringSplit c, system_cursors, `,
        Loop %c0%
        {
            h_cursor   := DllCall( "LoadCursor", "uint",0, "uint",c%A_Index% )
            h%A_Index% := DllCall( "CopyImage",  "uint",h_cursor, "uint",2, "int",0, "int",0, "uint",0 )
            b%A_Index% := DllCall("CreateCursor","uint",0, "int",0, "int",0
                , "int",32, "int",32, "uint",&AndMask, "uint",&XorMask )
        }
    }
    if (OnOff = 0 or OnOff = "Off" or $ = "h" and (OnOff < 0 or OnOff = "Toggle" or OnOff = "T"))
        $ = b  ; use blank cursors
    else
        $ = h  ; use the saved cursors

    Loop %c0%
    {
        h_cursor := DllCall( "CopyImage", "uint",%$%%A_Index%, "uint",2, "int",0, "int",0, "uint",0 )
        DllCall( "SetSystemCursor", "uint",h_cursor, "uint",c%A_Index% )
    }
}

Double click the file to run it, place it Startup folder so it runs all the time (works after standby/resume).

Scrolling with the script is very sensitive, you can adjust it to your own preferences. I also opened Regedit, went to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop and changed WheelScrollLines to 1 (default is 3)

Now you have the best of both worlds, middle clicking in any program, as well as scrolling in most places (I would say everywhere but I haven't tested enough).

Sources:
http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/comma...htm#HideCursor
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic33712.html

Edit: This is all with the middle button set to neither btw. Actually, if you have only a trackpoint and no touchpad (or no use for the touchpad), you can uninstall Lenovo's drivers and use the generic Windows Driver + Autohotkey to eliminate the extra process. Although Autohotkey is like 4 times the size of Daemon, still only 2mb.

Further testing shows horizontal scrolling doesn't really work at all xD. Worked in notepad, presumably some other stuff...Not gonna worry about it, it was a perk anyway. Also hiding the cursor only seems to work on windows cursors, stuff like Foxit's hand and Firefox's magnifying class stay on the screen.

[elixiash]

Autohotkey huh? What a great find! Ive been trying to look for a Setpoint alternative and I think this may be it!

[aznguyphan]

Autohotkey huh? What a great find! Ive been trying to look for a Setpoint alternative and I think this may be it!

Never heard of Setpoint before. Did it serve the same purpose as this script? I imagine a driver from a large corporation would be a better solution than a random script off the internet xD. Why are you looking for a replacement?

[elixiash]

Never heard of Setpoint before. Did it serve the same purpose as this script? I imagine a driver from a large corporation would be a better solution than a random script off the internet xD. Why are you looking for a replacement?

Setpoint (from Logitech if you really dont know) is getting very bloated nowadays and I only need the functions of the extra buttons of my vx revolution mouse! Besides, Logitech dont listens anymore of complaints that their software messes a lot of stuffs!

[aznguyphan]

Uploaded a Autohotkey compiled script in previous post, you no longer have to have Autohotkey installed unless you want to adjust the script for your own preference
Updated the code so that horizontal scrolling works better...Did I say I wasn't going to worry about it? Well it was actually simple and with that attitude I wouldn't of had this script in the first place =D.

Also made it so that it only either scrolls horizontally or vertically and not both at once, felt this was needed for control since my settings have it so sensitive to movement.

$*MButton::

Hotkey, $*MButton Up, MButtonup, off
KeyWait, MButton, T0.2
If ErrorLevel = 1
{
	Hotkey, $*MButton Up, MButtonup, on
	MouseGetPos, ox, oy
 	SetTimer, WatchTheMouse, 5
	SystemCursor("Toggle")
}
Else
	Send {MButton}
return

MButtonup:
Hotkey, $*MButton Up, MButtonup, off
SetTimer, WatchTheMouse, off
SystemCursor("Toggle")
return

WatchTheMouse:
MouseGetPos, nx, ny
dy := ny-oy
dx := nx-ox
If (dx**2 > 0 and dx**2>dy**2) ;edit 4 for sensitivity (changes sensitivity to movement)
{
	times := Abs(dy)/1 ;edit 1 for sensitivity (changes frequency of scroll signal)
	Loop, %times%
	{
		If (dx > 0)
			Click WheelRight
		Else
			Click WheelLeft
   	}
}
If (dy**2 > 0 and dy**2>dx**2) ;edit 0 for sensitivity (changes sensitivity to movement)
{
	times := Abs(dy)/1 ;edit 1 for sensitivity (changes frequency of scroll signal)
	Loop, %times% 
	{
		If (dy > 0)
			Click WheelDown
		Else
			Click WheelUp
	}   
}
MouseMove ox, oy
return

SystemCursor(OnOff=1)   ; INIT = "I","Init"; OFF = 0,"Off"; TOGGLE = -1,"T","Toggle"; ON = others
{
    static AndMask, XorMask, $, h_cursor
        ,c0,c1,c2,c3,c4,c5,c6,c7,c8,c9,c10,c11,c12,c13 ; system cursors
        , b1,b2,b3,b4,b5,b6,b7,b8,b9,b10,b11,b12,b13   ; blank cursors
        , h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,h7,h8,h9,h10,h11,h12,h13   ; handles of default cursors
    if (OnOff = "Init" or OnOff = "I" or $ = "")       ; init when requested or at first call
    {
        $ = h                                          ; active default cursors
        VarSetCapacity( h_cursor,4444, 1 )
        VarSetCapacity( AndMask, 32*4, 0xFF )
        VarSetCapacity( XorMask, 32*4, 0 )
        system_cursors = 32512,32513,32514,32515,32516,32642,32643,32644,32645,32646,32648,32649,32650
        StringSplit c, system_cursors, `,
        Loop %c0%
        {
            h_cursor   := DllCall( "LoadCursor", "uint",0, "uint",c%A_Index% )
            h%A_Index% := DllCall( "CopyImage",  "uint",h_cursor, "uint",2, "int",0, "int",0, "uint",0 )
            b%A_Index% := DllCall("CreateCursor","uint",0, "int",0, "int",0
                , "int",32, "int",32, "uint",&AndMask, "uint",&XorMask )
        }
    }
    if (OnOff = 0 or OnOff = "Off" or $ = "h" and (OnOff < 0 or OnOff = "Toggle" or OnOff = "T"))
        $ = b  ; use blank cursors
    else
        $ = h  ; use the saved cursors

    Loop %c0%
    {
        h_cursor := DllCall( "CopyImage", "uint",%$%%A_Index%, "uint",2, "int",0, "int",0, "uint",0 )
        DllCall( "SetSystemCursor", "uint",h_cursor, "uint",c%A_Index% )
    }
}