mouse_middle doesn't detect pressed button

Hi,

I just recieved quite an interesting report from one of our testers. He said that all the controls that use middle mouse button were not working. I made an simple engine executable just to show status of "mouse_middle" and it showed that on his PC engine indeed does not detect whether he has middle mouse button pressed or not. So far has mouse_middle worked on every single computer (mouse) I tried. Strangely enough engine on his PC does detect mouse_wheel movement (mickey.z). I know that there's probably not much you could do about this but I was just wondering if you ever got any report like this one.

The mouse is wireles "Labtec Wireless Desktop Edge" (PS/2)


thanks

This happens when either installing a mouse driver for a two button mouse, or disabling the middle button in the mouse driver settings.

Thanks for your reply. I too think that it's probably driver-related (I can't be sure until I check the tester's driver settings myself ) however the tester says that the third button works in some other apps (word etc.) and also the fact that mickey.z gives proper values suggests imho that the installed driver is meant to be used with a three-button mouse. I guess I'll better get the same kind of mouse and test it myself.

thanks.

Some drivers let you change the behavior of the middle click at the driver level, and re-emulate a keyboard press/release instead. Make sure that isnt the case as well.

Thanks Qwerty! I'll surely check that.