[pete21]

i have a usb mouse (don't we all)
anyways it has 2 buttons on the side of it. if you push them while on a webpage it will go back a page or forward a page.

well i would like to some how change this so i can skip up or down to the next song playing in winamp

i have the drivers for the mouse that let me configure the buttons.everything except song skip

so at the minute am using the mouse with windows standard drivers.
because if i use the drivers that come with the mouse its running in the background constantly ( the program for the mouse) and i cant stand programs running that really is no point as windows works just fine

is there a way i could alter windows setting some were to change the page forward/backwards to song skip?
if it helps i can also skip tracks by my usb keyboard as there is controls for that

reason i want to do this is i listen to music as i play games and its so easy and fast if i could do it that way ?
hope you can help
cheers

[Bubba]

What kind of mouse do you use? If it's a gaming mouse or programmable, can you make a macro? Do you have that option on your keyboard? I know the G15 does as well as most MS regular keyboards I have seen. I would think you could open your mouse menu, select a button, then hit the appropriate key on your keyboard, but I'm not sure. LOL I've been "meaning to" program my lachesis ever since I got it.......... which was a year or so ago, but have never done so. As such, I'm not sure how "programmable" they are. I swear though that while in game, some of those dudes are either quick as hell or they have a button programmed to jump, spin around, shoot, and drop, all with one button click..............

[pete21]

helo Bubba sorry am not to sure on what you mean by macro
the mouse i have is this one
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=218175
my keyboard is this one
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/sto...&category_oid=

i have no idea if i could program them. i do no that with the mouse program i can. every command apart from song skip. if i could some how change the page forward/backwards to song skip that should work,,but i have no idea

[Bubba]

A macro is when you take a series of keyboard strokes and assign them to either one key on your keyboard, or a button on your mouse; IE: the example I put in my last post where someone makes a macro and with one click of the mouse, their in game persona jumps up, spins 180 degrees, fires and drops to a prone lol. However, as far as I can see, your mouse isn't programmable. The button do whatever they manufacturer (whoever that is, couldn't tell there either lol) decided they were going to do.

Although you have the skip track key on your keyboard, I don't see how you could transfer it to your mouse. I don't think you can do what you want to do with that mouse.

[pete21]

oo write..ok well thanks for trying to help me Bubbail have to get a new mouse that is capable of doing it some time.. sending some rep your say mate!

[4D(Fordy(Ford) Ollie]

I think 3rd party applications are available that allow you to do it, by doing the programming stuff on the soft end rather than the mouse itself, like intercepting the signal before it does what it's meant to do, and then telling the PC to do something different.


I can't remember what it was called though.. I'll have a hunt round though, see if I can't find it