5 Button Mouse: Trackball Explorer

Buttons 4 and 5 do not work on secondary computers in some software

Greetings,

I finally got buttons 4 and 5 on my Trackball Explorer to work in IE... It took some troubleshooting but now I can use button 4 and 5 to go Back and Forward in IE on my secondary computers BUT... in a game such as World of Warcraft... I cannot get buttons 4 or 5 to register clicks... so I cant bind any action to those buttons in the game.

All systems are WinXP. I have Multiplicity 1.01 on all 3 systems. The primary machine is the one with the USB mouse and keyboard plugged in. I am using a Trackball Explorer mouse and a Saitek keyboard. Identical mouse and keyboard drivers are installed on all 3 systems. The mouse driver settings are set to default on all 3 systems (regarding the mouse button mappings).

I have tried mapping buttons 4 to something else... lets say a Keystroke "X" for example... I have tried changing the mouse button binding on ONLY the Primary.. and I have tried changing the mouse button bniding on Primary and all Secondaries... in both configurations.... when I open a program such as Notpad... and hit my button 4... it prints "X" for each keystroke on all machines... But again, if i go into World of Warcraft and hit my Button 4 it ONLY prints "X" on the Primary machine.... the secondary machines completely ignore button 4 and 5 while in game.

Any thoughts?
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Reply #1 Top
Found another post with some info on this:

https://forums.stardock.com/?forumid=267&aid=117121

Sounds like the functionality used to be there but was turned off due to issues with some setups. is there anyway to turn it back on given version 1.01? Editing a config file, etc?

If there is a very narrow hardware/software configuration that it WILL work on -- I would be insterested in configuring my system that way as the 4th and 5th buttons are very important to me on the secondary machines.

Thanks.
Reply #2 Top
I am currently using Multiplicity 1.2 on my machines (winxp on both) and have a MS Trackball Optical....is the 4th and 5th buttons workin yet?
Reply #3 Top
Buttons 4 & 5 are supported with MP 1.21 which is currently in beta.
Reply #4 Top
Thank you for mentioning that. I hadn't caught that 1.21 had enabled the 4th & 5th buttons! Hooray!

BTW, any chance that the multimedia buttons (I have a MS Natural 4000) will ever work on the secondaries?

Reply #6 Top
Do you have the show beta option checked at the bottom of SDC?
Reply #7 Top
yes....talked to the guys in #SDCentral today and looks like the beta is only active if you have pro....not if you have standard