Mouse wheel zooming-not

[Stephen Dolbee]

In AC8 my mouse wheel zoomed in and out as it should. In AC9 it just scrolls. How can I fix this?

Thanks,
Steve

[Stephen Dolbee]

woodster wrote:
Intellimouse for example requires that one go into the control panel and specify that softwares like ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, Max, etc. can override or disable normal mouse behavior and control it themselves.

Usually these "exceptions" are set up in Advanced settings of the mouse software.

Thank you all for your responses. Holding the control key down worked, but Woodster had the key to my problem. This might help others as well. I opened the Microsoft mouse software and clicked on the "wheel" tab. Under "wheel troubleshooter", click the advanced button. Once there, I was able to add Archicad 9 to the existing list. I already had Archicad 8.1 on the list, which explains why the wheel worked in 8, but not 9. This fixed the problem.

Thanks again,
Steve

[Anonymous]

I use 3-button wheel Logitech mouse at home and a 5-button wheel one at the office. I usually map most ot the buttons with other commands (like Del for example), so I have no choise but to use the supplied Mouse Software.

Not that I like to hold the Ctrl button

[Anonymous]

kliment wrote:
I use 3-button wheel Logitech mouse at home and a 5-button wheel one at the office. I usually map most ot the buttons with other commands (like Del for example), so I have no choise but to use the supplied Mouse Software.

I may be wrong on this one but I believe that if you have the latest MouseWare 9.76 you can set the wheel to "unassigned" and the wheel will function as it should in ArchiCAD (and appropriately in other programs like Word and Excel as well)

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/downloads/categories/US/EN,CRID=1792

[Stephen Dolbee]

kliment wrote:
I use 3-button wheel Logitech mouse at home and a 5-button wheel one at the office. I usually map most ot the buttons with other commands

I also use a 5 button mouse. Can the extra buttons be mapped for certain Archicad commands? If so, how?

Thanks,
Steve

[Anonymous]

Stephen
If yor using a MS Intellipoint trackball or other.....
Pull up the MS Mouse Properties window and under the wheel tab- click troubleshooter. It will wlak you thru the fix.
It happens to me also.

Oh yeah.......also ,you gotta ditch the latest MS Intellimouse drivers and find the 4.10.851 driver. Its the older much better version. This is the one where you can program your buttons.

[Anonymous]

In Logitech MouseWare wheel/middle button always remains assigned as "Middle button", otherwise it cannot pan. Problems with zooming remain, though.

I do not use the latest MouseWare version because it didn'n work well with Win2000.

You can map mouse buttons only with certain buttons, specified in a predefined list by MouseWare. It's a pity you cannot map complex commands like Ctrl=... A way around it is to map some functions in AC to F-buttons and then use them in MouseWare - it supports all F-s.

[Karl Ottenstein]

kliment wrote:
In Logitech MouseWare wheel/middle button always remains assigned as "Middle button", otherwise it cannot pan. Problems with zooming remain, though.

I wore out the left-button switch in my mouse (!), so just upgraded to a Logitech MX1000 laser mouse ($34 on sale).

I appreciate the comments in this old thread, as I wouldn't have guessed that pressing ctrl while rolling the wheel would zoom in the normal-mouse ArchiCAD way. (Without ctrl, the Logitech software sends scrolling commands to AC, and so it zooms and scrolls off the screen at the same time!) Remapping the middle button to "middle button" also took care of pan.

Uninstalling the Logitech SetPoint software made the mouse behave like a normal mouse (as far as wheel roll and button), but then I lost the ability to have mouse acceleration and horizontal scroll. Without acceleration, it takes too much wrist motion to get the cursor from far left to far right of the virtual two-monitor screen.

So, like you, I'll put up with having to press Ctrl-Wheel to zoom in AC. In the process, I learned that ctrl-wheel zooms font size in Internet Explorer.

Thanks,
Karl

[Anonymous]

Recently bought Logitech Cordless Click Plus mouse, 5+1 buttons, and also side scrolling.

Now it is possible to map complex commands to the buttons!

And now you cannot map left button either! A really silly decision!

Also the mouse has grown in size. Smaller mice were better.