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Mata
Profile Joined September 2011
7 Posts
December 01 2011 15:23 GMT
#1
Hello there,
Is there a way that i could use my additional thumb mouse buttons for hotkeys? I can picture that shift or attack command would be really nice to have there, but when i click the button to change a hotkey, it doesent interact with my mouse... Is there a way, please?

Once more to the shift command change... Where is it?
I have been searching the hotkeys changing menu like million times and i couldnt find it :-/.

Thank you so much for your unselfish time,
Have a great day!
Rubber
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States150 Posts
December 01 2011 15:26 GMT
#2
Use your mouse control panel to change the thumb button to shift. If it didn't come with a control panel, download a program like SteerMouse.
"DONT TOUCH ME WITH THAT @#$%ING PROBE." User was probed for this post.
Ventil
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Sweden414 Posts
December 01 2011 15:28 GMT
#3
Yeah, there shouldn't be any problem reconfig the default mouse buttons though your mice configuration panel.
Or, if you have it set to something like Mouse4, you could just rebind it in the SC2 keybind editor to wathever you want, no?
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Mata
Profile Joined September 2011
7 Posts
December 04 2011 11:08 GMT
#4
Thanks for the replies,
I understood that SteerMouse is for Mac, since I have PC, I downloaded the only alternative I have found - X-Mouse Button Control - not a bad thing, but there can be only some commands assignet to each button - like alt+f4, ctrl+c, backspace...

Ok, that could work, if I knew where to find the shift command in the hotkeys changing menu, i could set it as backspace, when backspace would be set as mouse4 (hope thats understandable)... But where to change the shift?

Or, do you know any better programme for that purpose?

I have no configuration panel for my mouse from the manufacturer, so those are the options, I think.

Thanks for your help!


bbm
Profile Joined April 2011
United Kingdom1320 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-04 20:27:47
December 04 2011 11:37 GMT
#5
I use autohotkey

http://www.autohotkey.com/

I have three buttons on my mouse, one is a browser search button by default so that's explanatory, and the others are labelled as xbutton1 and xbutton2. If that doesn't work there are some ways to get it to tell you what key you're pressing I think, have a look throught their documentation which is alright.

But yeah, here's what I have for SC2:

#IfWinActive ahk_class StarCraft II
XButton2::`
XButton1::+`
Browser_Search::F5


That essentially says if starcraft 2 is open, rebind xbutton2 to ` on UK keyboards, is ~ on US. The one next to tab, esc, and 1, and xbutton1 to shift (represented by +) and `. I've mapped the search button (which is useless and irritating anyway) to F5 so I can use it as a camera hotkey

Then in the SC2 hotkeys menu I've mapped toggle bases to `. so you'd want something like this:




#IfWinActive ahk_class StarCraft II
XButton2::a
XButton1::^
Browser_Search::F5



simple!
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ePdeLay
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Australia220 Posts
December 04 2011 11:44 GMT
#6
i set my side mice button to base camera instead of using the space bar method which is really efficient
iHirO
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United Kingdom1381 Posts
December 04 2011 12:21 GMT
#7
I've also switched the base camera key to my spare mouse button and its really improving my injects.
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Colin
Profile Joined May 2011
18 Posts
December 04 2011 12:24 GMT
#8
I switched the forward button on my mouse to Control; it lets me add hotkeys without much effort.
This is entirely illogical.
Lobo2me
Profile Joined May 2010
Norway1213 Posts
December 04 2011 12:28 GMT
#9
I switched mousewheel left and mousewheel right to F5 and F6. I can use that for injects or any kind of location save, and I'm much more effective when it comes to refreshing TL threads too.
Bad manners are better than no manners at all.
Mata
Profile Joined September 2011
7 Posts
December 04 2011 15:00 GMT
#10
Thanks you all, especially bbm, just a few details: what should i write in the script when i want to configure the wheel up and wheel down? Also, if I want a button to stand for shift, should i write Shift or some shortcut?

I'm sorry, doesnt like theese text programmes :-(
Thanks a lot!!!
bbm
Profile Joined April 2011
United Kingdom1320 Posts
December 04 2011 20:27 GMT
#11
On December 05 2011 00:00 Mata wrote:
Thanks you all, especially bbm, just a few details: what should i write in the script when i want to configure the wheel up and wheel down? Also, if I want a button to stand for shift, should i write Shift or some shortcut?

I'm sorry, doesnt like theese text programmes :-(
Thanks a lot!!!


No problems

http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Hotkeys.htm

Essentially, shift is replaced by +, control by ^, and alt by !

So ctrl+alt+x is represented by ^!x

Mouse wheels are done by the following:


WheelUp::blah
WheelDown::blah
By.Sun or By.Rain, he always delivers
IPS.Blue
Profile Joined January 2004
Germany309 Posts
December 08 2011 13:02 GMT
#12
On December 02 2011 00:23 Mata wrote:
...
Is there a way that i could use my additional thumb mouse buttons for hotkeys?
...


This is only advisable if you are not a fingertip grip user. Because in that case you would need your thumb to stabilize your mouse - and not press buttons.
Erik.TheRed
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1655 Posts
December 08 2011 15:04 GMT
#13
On December 08 2011 22:02 IPS.Blue wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 02 2011 00:23 Mata wrote:
...
Is there a way that i could use my additional thumb mouse buttons for hotkeys?
...


This is only advisable if you are not a fingertip grip user. Because in that case you would need your thumb to stabilize your mouse - and not press buttons.


You could bind mouse 4 to switch base camera (backspace by default). It's pretty nice to be able to quickly get back to your main base (especially when microing a scouting worker) and it makes worker transfers, injects, and chronoboosting/muling a lot easier.
"See you space cowboy"
Dwomir
Profile Joined May 2010
Sweden14 Posts
December 08 2011 15:30 GMT
#14
I installed my drivers for my logictech mouse and it worked out perfect.
The mouse is a MX518 which I can increase and decrease speed with and so on, none of these features worked till I installed the drivers. With the drivers I could assign commands on starcraft 2 to the mouse buttons with no problem and go to detail with its speed.

So take a look if your drivers are installed or download a program like suggested before.
adrenaLinG
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada676 Posts
December 08 2011 16:17 GMT
#15
Unfortunately I think EU Versions of Starcraft don't support this feature because of driver conflicts
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
pandaburn
Profile Joined November 2010
United States89 Posts
December 08 2011 16:43 GMT
#16
I rebound my mouse buttons to actual keyboard keys (page up/down, del, ins) so that I could use them for Starcraft.

As for the shift key, on most keyboards modifiers such as shift, alt, and ctrl are actually wired differently, so mapping them to a different key would not work. For this reason, sc2 does not provide an option for setting the "shift" function to another button. Perhaps a third party program could do this, but I wouldn't count on it working well.
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