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A question on Mouse Buttons and control groups

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Cyrain
Profile Joined August 2010
United States35 Posts
October 24 2010 16:03 GMT
#1
Does anyone use them? I have a razer mamba and feel it would help me a lot to say, bind control groups 0 and 9 to my mouse buttons and use them for my active control units.

Another question is how do you do it? Is it even possible? I tried to change the settings in the options tab in SC2 and I was unable to.
Zidon
Profile Joined August 2010
United States21 Posts
October 24 2010 16:09 GMT
#2
Do not do this. You will be banned by Blizzard.
greentft
Profile Joined August 2010
Costa Rica37 Posts
October 24 2010 16:12 GMT
#3
I've heard of people being banned because they used macros, I wouldn't use them...
deth2munkies
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States4051 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-24 16:14:36
October 24 2010 16:12 GMT
#4
On October 25 2010 01:09 Zidon wrote:
Do not do this. You will be banned by Blizzard.

Not for changing the key bindings. But if he creates a macro to automate a few steps, THEN he'll get banned.

Edit: Clarity: What he's saying (if I'm understanding) is he wants to bind control groups to his mouse keys instead of 0-9. That's not a macro, it'd be like if I bound my control groups to qwerty...etc.
FliedLice
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany7494 Posts
October 24 2010 16:14 GMT
#5
how' that a macro?

it's simply rebinding your keys.
one button press will still be one action
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itsthewoo
Profile Joined October 2010
United States260 Posts
October 24 2010 16:17 GMT
#6
If you do it via mouse software (for example, Logitech's software), then there's no way for Blizz to know.
Cyrain
Profile Joined August 2010
United States35 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-24 16:26:15
October 24 2010 16:17 GMT
#7
The question is how do I do it? And yes all I want to do here is have my left mouse button register as my "9"key, for example.
emythrel
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United Kingdom2599 Posts
October 24 2010 16:27 GMT
#8
atm you can't customise keybinding in sc2, although they are working on that!

Perhaps using something like joy2key would be what you are looking for, however i'm not sure how it would deal with a multi button mouse like the mamba... j2k normally is used to bind a joystick to keys for playing guitar hero or whatever on your PC, but you can bind any key to any other key essentially.

You should be able to bind 1-9 to mouse buttons with it. There are probably easier ways, but this was the first thing that came to mind
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PaPoolee
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Netherlands660 Posts
October 24 2010 16:27 GMT
#9
Let me get this straight :O, i can't use any macros even if i have a Logitech g15 keyboard? can anyone conform this? thanks!.

As for the Op i think if you run the software that you installed from Razer for the Mamba you have you can change whatever key on that mouse to whatever command you wish it to issue when you click it, At least that's the case with my Logitech G5 .
Talho
Profile Joined August 2010
Belgium592 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-24 16:28:20
October 24 2010 16:28 GMT
#10
On October 25 2010 01:17 Cyrain wrote:
The question is how do I do it? And yes all I want to do here is have my left mouse button register as my "9"key, for example.



yes this is allowed, changing keybinds is allowed.

the moment you have 2 actions for 1 keybind its not allowed (macro)
Cryp71c
Profile Joined September 2010
United States24 Posts
October 24 2010 16:30 GMT
#11
The software that came with your Mamba (or that you can download from Razer) will have a binding system on it, undoubtedly, so that you can bind special effects, specific keys or macros (which will get you banned, as others have stated).
Millitron
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States2611 Posts
October 24 2010 16:33 GMT
#12
I'm interested in this too. I would absolutely LOVE having the extra buttons on my Razer Naga to use for stuff. Is that Joy2Key program the only way to do it?
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Techno
Profile Joined June 2010
1900 Posts
October 24 2010 16:39 GMT
#13
Logitech Setpoint will do it. I used to use all the buttons on my MX Revolution. Had 1, 2 on the side and 0 as the little button in the middle. Worked really good. But my MX Revolution is wireless, so I had to bail on it.
And it makes it so you can't click the mouse wheel in on webpages for scrolling : /
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NeWnAr
Profile Joined April 2010
Singapore231 Posts
October 24 2010 16:41 GMT
#14
How does Blizzard even know that your'e macro-ing to ban you? It's not even online and will definitely not trigger any hack detection since it is a normal hardware modification.
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rEiGN~
Profile Joined September 2010
369 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-24 16:47:12
October 24 2010 16:43 GMT
#15
I'm using AutoHotkey to map mouse button 4 to control group 0, still not banned.


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Cyrain
Profile Joined August 2010
United States35 Posts
October 24 2010 16:44 GMT
#16
On October 25 2010 01:27 emythrel wrote:
atm you can't customise keybinding in sc2, although they are working on that!

Perhaps using something like joy2key would be what you are looking for, however i'm not sure how it would deal with a multi button mouse like the mamba... j2k normally is used to bind a joystick to keys for playing guitar hero or whatever on your PC, but you can bind any key to any other key essentially.

You should be able to bind 1-9 to mouse buttons with it. There are probably easier ways, but this was the first thing that came to mind


Okay, I'll look into this.

For the people recommending I use the Razer Mamba software I tried that and there wasn't any option to just switch two key bindings, it was all macros and I didn't want to bother with that.
Valok
Profile Joined June 2010
United States16 Posts
October 24 2010 16:46 GMT
#17
I have a Razer Death Adder and bind 9, 0 to each of the mouse buttons and have been doing this trouble free since release.
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GagnarTheUnruly
Profile Joined July 2010
United States655 Posts
October 24 2010 17:58 GMT
#18
On October 25 2010 01:27 PaPoolee wrote:
Let me get this straight :O, i can't use any macros even if i have a Logitech g15 keyboard? can anyone conform this? thanks!.

As for the Op i think if you run the software that you installed from Razer for the Mamba you have you can change whatever key on that mouse to whatever command you wish it to issue when you click it, At least that's the case with my Logitech G5 .


For the OP it's OK to use a macro mouse as long as you're just rebinding keys. One press, one action = OK. Nothing wrong with having the key be on your mouse or a clapper or whatever.

Otherwise, it's totally cheating to use macros, so obviously you shouldn't do it. APM is intended to be a limiting resource in SC2.
Bluetea
Profile Joined August 2010
United States185 Posts
October 24 2010 20:36 GMT
#19
On October 25 2010 01:09 Zidon wrote:
Do not do this. You will be banned by Blizzard.


Wrong. Only queueing up macros for a single button is illegal. For example, if pressing a side mouse button selects a queen and then tells it to inject larva, that is illegal. But simply assigning a side mouse button to 0 or 9 is perfectly legal.

1 button = 1 command = legal
1 button = 2+ commands = illegal
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Cookie
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada94 Posts
October 24 2010 20:43 GMT
#20
On October 25 2010 05:36 Bluetea wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 25 2010 01:09 Zidon wrote:
Do not do this. You will be banned by Blizzard.


Wrong. Only queueing up macros for a single button is illegal. For example, if pressing a side mouse button selects a queen and then tells it to inject larva, that is illegal. But simply assigning a side mouse button to 0 or 9 is perfectly legal.

1 button = 1 command = legal
1 button = 2+ commands = illegal


So i can use logitech setpoint to assign like a command center(control group 4) to the side buttons on my mouse as long as it only selects the command center?
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