Mouse binding

[Roger]

Snead, I apologize. Gaius, I admit that I made a Mickey Mouse comment.

[Krisidious]

oh sorry Snead... didn't realize this was your first post.

[Gaieus]

Okay guys (and the same time I have to admit that I also had some giggle moments)

[snead hearn]

Oh, dear. Look here, Minnie.
I return here after a week and all I find are a few human droppings.
Oh, dear. Oh,dear.

[jeff hammond]

what about your mouse driver?
some of them (Logitech for example) allow for customization that way.

[Krisidious]

@unknownuser said:

Oh, dear. Look here, Minnie.
I return here after a week and all I find are a few human droppings.
Oh, dear. Oh,dear.

[Roger]

Clearly Snead is in the spirit of the moment.

[jaceguay]

I recommend Autohotkey for this type of customization, If you tell me what you are you trying to achieve I´ll help you make a script.

[snead hearn]

Jacequay-

I investigated Autohotkey, but did not go further because it wasn't clear
if it would allow changing the mouse inputs for only Sketchup and not for
everything on my computer.

For all the other 3d software that I use, the following mapping has become
ingrained in muscle memory:

Orbit = Alt + Lmb
Pan = Mmb
Zoom = Scroll wheel

If Orbit and Pan could be reset for Sketchup only, I wouldn't be tripping over
them all the time.

Your help is most welcome.

Snead

[jaceguay]

Hi, the script follows, it changes the orbit and pan as you describe, to use it just install autohotkey, after you run it for the first time it will create a template script on your documents folder, you can open it with notepad delete what´s there and paste this.
The IfWinActive, SketchUp ensure that it will only be active in the sketchup window.

#SingleInstance force
#NoEnv
#Persistent
#ErrorStdOut
SetTitleMatchMode 2
#IfWinActive, SketchUp
;-------------------------
*MButton;;
SendEvent {Shift Down}{MButton down}
KeyWait MButton
SendEvent {Shift Up}{MButton up}
return
;-------------------------
*!LButton;;
SendEvent {MButton down}
KeyWait LButton
SendEvent {MButton up}
return

[snead hearn]

Thank you for your response and guidance, jaceguay.

I installed the script as you indicated. Upon opening Sketchup it worked beautifully.
All was well until I closed Sketchup and turned off the computer. Upon reopening the program,
Sketchup had reverted to its default Orbit and Pan.

After going back through the installation steps and checking the AutoHotkey help files,
and making no progress in finding an answer, I tried Start > AutoHotkey > Open. Nothing
visible happened. However, when I opened Sketchup again the script was working. It appears
that shutting down and restarting the computer is the problem.

This is beyond my abilities to solve. Do you have any ideas or suggestions?

[jaceguay]

Autohotkey must be running to make the modification work, the installation don´t make it start automatically with windows, so you can start it yourself every time you want to use sketchup or to make it easier you should put autohotkey as a start up program. After you start Autohotkey to ensure it its running see if you can find a green "H" beside the clock on the taksbar.

[snead hearn]

jacequay,
Again, thank you. It is now working as I wished.
Jeff Hammond,
I had previously checked Logitech drivers. However, they do not allow modification of
the primary mouse buttons.
Thanks to all.
Snead