Help assigning action to mouse middle click ?

[molten_cheese]

Hi all, I hope I'm posting this in the right area of the forum.


I have a standard mac mouse - I see that I can change the middle click from dashboard to opening other files.

I would like my middle click button to instead run a keypress event like F1 instead. Is there a way to do this in the mouse settings? Or is there a way to write some sort of script that i have the middle click run which is equivalent to a key press ?


Any and all help is greatly appreciated - and would help with my workflow - i'm moving over from a pc where i had this set up. I'm just very green as of yet with my new mac.

Thx


(im not sure which mac i bought - it's white with a 22" screen....)

 

[Egidio]

When you go to your Systems Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse, can you re-assign that button to "Other"? I'm sorry, I don't use Apple's mouse and am not familiar with it at all. However, most mice I've used allow for buttons to be customized via the mouse preference. Maybe Apple is different with its own mouse.

 

[molten_cheese]

Yes, I can set it to other - i just dont know if i can type in there or not the keypress?

that is what my question ultimately is - what do i put under other to represent a keypress ?


- thx

 

[Ric]

Hi there and welcome !

you can do it...but you need to cheat a little !

You will need to use an AppleScript, the AppleScript will 'press' whatever key you want.

First you need to turn on GUI scripting support.

Go to System Preferences-->Universal Access and click the "Enable access for assistive devices"

Now you need to write the AppleScript...

Go to your Applications folder-->Utilities-->AppleScript and open Script editor..

then type:

 tell application "System Events"

    key code 122

end tell

Function Key     Key Code
  1         122
  2         120
  3         99
  4         118
  5         96
  6         97
  7         98
  8          100
  9          101
 10         109
 11         103
 12         111
 13         105
 14         107
 15         113

Then save the script as an Application...and assign it to the middle button in the Mouse preferences...

Hope that helps !

regards

Ric