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USB Overdrive

Driver for usb mice, trackballs, joysticks, gamepads, keyboards.

Version:  3.0.1

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Mouse feature missing with Mac OS 10.3.8

Feedback Type:  Troubleshooting Report

Contributed by: jb99 Saturday, March 12 2005 @ 04:37 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

With my previous OS 9 driven Mac, my Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse had a selection to have what I considered a very useful feature, that of snapping to the "return or enter or save" button of a window. This feature was universal among all the apps. This selection is no longer available on my OS 10.3.8 iMac G5. I installed the latest Microsoft Intellipoint driver to no avail. I contacted Microsoft and, 'as expected' they could not help me.

I installed USB Overdrive X and that did not help this matter.

I purchased 2 other mouses (mice?), a wireless Logitec and the wireless Microsoft Explorer. Both also did not have the snap feature. I returned the Explorer and gave the Logitec one to my daughter with my old OS 9 Mac. With my old Mac, the Logitec has the snap feature and works fine.

Could it be that OS X prevents this feature from being accessible?

Or do you know of another brand of Wireless Optical Mouse that would have this feature working with OS X?

jb
  
System Info:iMac G5, 1.8 GHz, 512 Mb, OS 10.3.8

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Mouse feature missing with Mac OS 10.3.8 - w i n t e r m u t e

LazyMouse has the feature you mentioned. Also, SideTrack, a driver for PowerBook trackpads, has the snapback feature as well... but it is usually quicker to just hit "return."

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Sunday, April 10 2005 @ 02:12 AM PDT


Mouse feature missing with Mac OS 10.3.8 - Welles Goodrich

I don't believe you will find any input software for OS X with the snap-to feature. When USB Overdirve was in Beta (4 years ago now?) I had a discussion with the developer, Alessandro Levi Montalcini, via email. He said that because of system changes the snap-to feature would require significant system hacks, if it could be done at all. He told me that it would not return to USB Overdrive as he didn't trust such severe system modifications.

In case you didn't know, Alessandro was the software engineer who contracted writing the original Intellimouse drivers for Microsoft.

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Wednesday, April 13 2005 @ 09:55 AM PDT