Get middle mouse to work in Octopus?

[Fatrat]

Hi all.

I'm using Octopus, which i find awesome in every sense so far... but one. :!:

It seems whenever i have it running, it automatically makes my middle mouse button emulate the left mouse button, and vice versa. So for instance even when alt tabbed out, left mouse will open a link in Firefox rather than a new tab. More problematic of course is that when i left click to mouselook in WoW, it counts as a middle mouse click, which i have bound to Blink on my mage. So every time i try to mouselook around my toon, i Blink forward, argh!

Does anyone know a way to fix or bypass this? I've tried mapping the clicks to other keys both in Octopus and seperate mouse software. Just can't get it to work. It's really hampering my game at the moment since i lose 2 bindings when i lose the middle mouse. ?(

Any help will be appreciated, thanks. :thumbsup:

[Fatrat]

OK, so i toyed around some more and can get it working if i go into my mouse application (X Button Mousecontrol) and click apply, though it's strange that i have to do this when it's already applied normally. Before i do that, Octopus picks up my middle mouse button as my left button.

So i'm still stuck trying to get Octopus to recognise my middle mouse button as middle mouse button, instead of thinking it's the left mouse button when i click it. The above thing isn't a solution cause it requires me to do this every time i alt tab and such. :(

Edit - I'll try installing the mouse filter, not sure if this will help at all though. I assume from the instructions it won't make a difference with WoW.

[Fatrat]

OK, i fixed it AT LAST. I don't know if you want to delete this topic or keep it incase someone else has these problems.

Basically since Octopus doesn't recognise middle mouse presses (at least not mine, it thinks i am pressing left mouse button) i made my mouse binding application tell WoW that middle mouse = middle mouse, and Octopus that left mouse = middle mouse. So now when i press middle mouse, it does what i want it to on both computers. So by Octopus not working as i want it to, it works! ?( :thumbup: 8o

Cheers.

[skarlot]

i dunno where this problem is originating... clicks are the last key/mouse event I havn't bothered to let 'fall through' the hooks (it's on todo), since it was just easier to reinject and ignore as done on networked clients.. if you get me. Even so, it will take teh click reported, and inject it again. so its the first time i've ever heard of this. the mouse filter on the other hand just listens and doesn't interfere on the server.

[Fatrat]

Yeah, i'm not really sure... i tried Octopus and had this problem, so then went to a friends house who had got himself Keyclone but he had some problems so i thought i'd give Octopus another go before buying Keyclone (since i'm sure i could get support for it whereas my buddy just gave in with it).

So i came to Octopus and set it up after reading some guides on what each section did, etc. Then just had the mouse problems. I have a Microsoft Intellimouse with 5 buttons, all of which i use in WoW. What was happening was when i had Octopus running, it was picking up 'middle mouse click' as 'left mouse click'.

In the end i managed to get around this by setting a mouse application up called X Mouse Button so i could assign clicks to different keys and just tricked it i guess. I told it to force 'Middle Click' to the left mouse button, entered it in the setup, then forced left click back to the left button, unbinded middle mouse. Suddenly it works.

It's probably really unclear the way i'm explaining it, but i think the problem arose from the 'Click' options on the Server tab not recognising my middle mouse button, kept thinking it was the left button, not sure if it's just my mouse... but not had any problems with it before in anything.

I'm fine now anyway, just thought it might be of use to you if you found this problem later down the line.

Thanks for the cool program. :D