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1. Re: Mouse Button Shortcuts possible?
370H55V Apr 15, 2010 7:30 PM (in response to bsnyder175)I've got a Logitech Laser 5300 wireless mouse (9 buttons) and I've never been able to configure anything it does to PS.
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2. Re: Mouse Button Shortcuts possible?
D Fosse-QDEaQ1 Apr 16, 2010 3:33 AM (in response to bsnyder175)Do it the other way. First install the OS X driver for the mouse. Then you can assign any keystroke or keystroke combination to any mouse button from the Logitech control panel.
I'm on Vista, but I don't see why it should behave any differently on Mac.
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3. Re: Mouse Button Shortcuts possible?
370H55V Apr 16, 2010 3:53 AM (in response to D Fosse-QDEaQ1)A caviat:
The above suggestion may or may not work, but setting your mouse up for one application and one application only, can have unintended consequences in other software or your Operating System.
Double check for keystroke conflicts BEFORE you program a mouse for a single application only.
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4. Re: Mouse Button Shortcuts possible?
D Fosse-QDEaQ1 Apr 16, 2010 4:18 AM (in response to 370H55V)My Logitech mouse can be programmed per-application, but I haven't tried that.
What I have done is to configure a few of the most-used Photoshop shortcuts to mouse buttons as global assignments. That works very well, even if that particular shortcut has no function (or a different function) in the OS or other applications.
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5. Re: Mouse Button Shortcuts possible?
bsnyder175 Apr 16, 2010 6:59 AM (in response to D Fosse-QDEaQ1)Thanks. I did try that out and was able to keybind things in PS and then assign that keybind to my mouse clicks. But also, like Me said, it had some unintended effects on my desktop. The first one I tried made new folders on my desktop, lol. I added every possible modifier to it to make it as complex as possible, hoping that my other software wouldn't recognize it as a shortcut for another action. But my fear is that some pieces of software still may see one part of my shortcut and still perform anoter action. For example, if I did cmnd+shft+ctrl+opt+N for something in PS. Would it be possible that another application would only read the cmnd+N within that larger combination and still perform its shortcut? Does that make sense?
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6. Re: Mouse Button Shortcuts possible?
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7. Re: Mouse Button Shortcuts possible?
bsnyder175 Apr 16, 2010 7:25 AM (in response to Junk Mailer)Aha, that's what Fosse and Me were talking about. I didn't see that option at the top to program for specific applications. That should do it, thanks everyone!



