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iain2D
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Question about the Navigator

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I dont own a Space Navigator and I have a question regarding the buttons on it.

Is it possible to program the Navigator so one of its buttons acts as a 'enter' key (so pressing it does the same as pressing the 'enter' button on the keyboard?

Does it do any other macros or keystrokes?

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Post by Buzzz »

You can configure the buttons to perform whichever action you want.
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Question about the Navigator

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Hi iain2D

The SpaceNavigator (and our other 3D mice as well) has an advanced button mapping editor (in fact this is a feature offered by the 3DxSoftware delivered with the device) which makes possible to allocate different commands to different keys. There is also a button called "Customer functions" which allows to map macros to the available keys on the device.
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Question about the Navigator, Explorer and Pilot.

Post by iain2D »

This question then relates to the Navigator, Explorer and Pilot.

Why cant you assign left or right button mouse clicks on to them??

At the moment I have only use my right arm for pointing and a second mouse in my left hand for clicking/scrolling due to an accident/long term muscle problems. Ideally, I want to use to a 3D Connexion product in my left hand to pan/zoom PLUS mouse clicks.

How much would it cost to have a special one made??
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Post by jwick »

If you get the latest driver (3DxWare version: 6.3.3), you can add the following lines to the config file that your application is using:

(Look for this section)
BUTTON_NUMBERS =
{
...
(add down toward the bottom of this section
...
{ UI_MOUSE_LEFT, "Left Mouse Button", 107 },
{ UI_MOUSE_MIDDLE, "Middle Mouse Button", 108 },
{ UI_MOUSE_RIGHT, "Right Mouse Button", 109 }
}

When you reload that config file (restart the driver), you will have 3 mouse button related entries in the list of possible button targets. You can then assign these to any device button you wish.

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