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Hellraiser · Post by **Hellraiser** » 2003 Nov 20, 15:44

At first I want to express my honour to the author of 2xExplorer for coding a fairly superior alternative for the windows file management.
It is to be supposed to be the #1, or to become it. I am posting here also with the intention to make a suggestion. I miss the ability to navigate >[back-forward]< with the mouse button 4 and button 5.
I really hope that the author is going to add this ability.

Best regards,
Hellraiser

Post by **nikos** » 2003 Nov 21, 09:03

mouse button 4 & 5? Is that some freak mutation? Like mice with ears on their backs?

never heard of this before!

Hellraiser · Post by **Hellraiser** » 2003 Nov 21, 13:38

Rather than giving a not well understandable explanation I'll show you this mutation which is not quite one as you describe it.

I suppose that I maybe just use thw wrong expressions for the buttons.
As you can see on image 2 and image 3 there are 'outside buttons' which I often use to switch back and forward in a file manager (undo last step/redo undo'd step) and also in a web browser (undo last step/redo undo'd step).

fgagnon · Post by **fgagnon** » 2003 Nov 21, 14:17

I guess many of us are not up with the times, or prefer the keyboard so much we never looked twice at the new rodents.

Looks like the kb equiv of Ctrl-z & Ctrl-y (undo/redo).
Is there a 6th button to mimic F4 (repeat last operation)?

Post by **nikos** » 2003 Nov 21, 15:53

is that red flash out of the rodent's backside some sort of warp engine exhaust?

but seriously, I don't really know how you can assign commands to the buttons. Perhaps it has a setup/configuration program you can tweak?

Hellraiser · Post by **Hellraiser** » 2003 Nov 21, 17:04

Do you know how energy saving it is just to use that red flash for illumination?

I'll check my documentation and then post the information needed to assign these buttons.

mimeryme · Post by **mimeryme** » 2003 Nov 21, 18:45

For the record, my Logitech Trackman has the back/forward buttons and they function well in 2x, but I'm still figuring out how they work in x2.

Hellraiser · Post by **Hellraiser** » 2003 Nov 21, 19:57

it's attached to xButtons

please have a look at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us ... 2_XBUTTONs

zippit · Post by **zippit** » 2003 Nov 22, 04:02

Hellraiser wrote:At first I want to express my honour to the author of 2xExplorer for coding a fairly superior alternative for the windows file management.
It is to be supposed to be the #1, or to become it. I am posting here also with the intention to make a suggestion. I miss the ability to navigate >[back-forward]< with the mouse button 4 and button 5.
I really hope that the author is going to add this ability.

Best regards,
Hellraiser

You gotta be kidding.Stop posting trick posts.So heres the deal,Use all those magic buttons in "My Computer"
Quote:Pilot to navigator,"where are we ?"

kev · Post by **kev** » 2003 Nov 26, 12:54

here we go again - yet another example of zippits utterly unhelpful or critical posts. after a perfectly valid question and seven reasonable and constructive replies, you wade in with insults and mockery.

"heres the deal"?! m8 u have got no clue as to what Hellraiser is even talking about, so i seriously doubt he or anyone is going to want to take advice coming from you

narayan · Post by **narayan** » 2003 Nov 27, 03:42

There are many new pointing devices nowadays: M$ has released a wheel mouse that has a sideways movement of the wheel. Then there is the touchpad in laptops.

I wonder how the extra controls available can be used without letting the usual mouse-users miss any vital controls?

zippit · Post by **zippit** » 2003 Nov 27, 04:32

kev wrote:here we go again - yet another example of zippits utterly unhelpful or critical posts. after a perfectly valid question and seven reasonable and constructive replies, you wade in with insults and mockery.

"heres the deal"?! m8 u have got no clue as to what Hellraiser is even talking about, so i seriously doubt he or anyone is going to want to take advice coming from you

You gave an answer that's better than mine.
What was it,and did it help ?
S.Wade.in Canada.

Morning Star · Post by **Morning Star** » 2003 Nov 27, 05:58

So, ignoring the usual but irrelevant arguments over zippit's posts, and getting back to an interesting discussion: Nikos, are you going to add support for the two extra buttons? 'cause I often try to use them in x2, only to be surprised they don't work, before I remember that they haven't worked the last 100 times I tried them either....

Post by **nikos** » 2003 Nov 27, 09:03

i wouldn't know how to do it! Do they send a WM_ message to the window?

Morning Star · Post by **Morning Star** » 2003 Nov 27, 10:42

Did you read the MSDN link that Hellraiser posted? It seemed straightforward...?

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Well kev