OnMiddleMouseDown...?

#1 You can look up how to implement mice with action maps and the bindCmd method. One of the buttons [0-10 or something] should be the middle button. I could not tell you which.

#2 @Kevin: Thanks. I've had a look, and it does seem feasible. Button2 is the middle button, apparently. I'll give that a go later today. :)

#3 @Kevin: Thanks for the advice, but I've had no luck. Here's what I've tried:

function setupKeybinds()
{
    new ActionMap(middleMouseButtonMap);
    middleMouseButtonMap.push();
    middleMouseButtonMap.bindCmd(mouse, button2, "onMiddleMouseDown();", "onMiddleMouseUp();");
}

function onMiddleMouseDown()
{
    echo("Middle mouse button pressed!");
}

function onMiddleMouseUp()
{
    echo("Middle mouse button not pressed!");
}

All to no avail. No errors, but no callbacks, either. If I change the device from mouse to keyboard, and button2 to "a", it displays the two echoes.

I got button2 from this link, about a third down the page: http://www.garagegames.com/docs/tgea/official/content/documentation/Scripting%20Reference/Console%20Objects/Torque_Console_Objects_1.html

The only other thing I can think of is trying random button numbers, but even button0 and button1 have returned no response from the other buttons.

Can anyone have a look at the calls that TGB uses for onMouseDown and onMouseRightDown? I'm sure I could base it off that, could I not?

#4 Instead of "mouse"

try: "mouse0", "mouse1" and "mouse2". One of them may work, trying anything past mouse2 is probably futile.

Quote:Can anyone have a look at the calls that TGB uses for onMouseDown and onMouseRightDown? I'm sure I could base it off that, could I not?

You mean the C++ code? Okay, take how hard you think it will be, and multiply that by 10x and you will have a safe estimate of how difficult it will be to duplicate that function for a middle mouse button. If you aren't a C++ programmer, don't even try it.

#5 Yeah, I've gone through from mouse, mouse0, all the way through to mouse9, and from button0 to button9 on all of them, and still nothing. But it's not registering left mouse clicks or right mouse clicks through the same code, either.

That's what I was getting at with the calls. I didn't mean the C++ code, even though I have a little bit of background in it. I meant the calls that onMouseDown calls when the left mouse button is pressed. It should be a variation of that, I would have assumed.

Either way, I can't access *any* mouse button clicks through the bindCmd call, which I do find a bit odd. I've also got a keyboard one that is identical and gets called when I press the right key.

#6 Yeah, I knew that the mouse commands through action maps USED to be broken, but I thought that they were quite fixed by now. Sorry, David.

#7 All good, Kevin. (Unless you're apologising because you're personally responsible for breaking the action maps! Haha!)

I can use onMouseDown and onRightMouseDown for the other buttons, and I'll just use a keyboard key for the middle button in the meantime. I think I'll also add a thread to Melv's forum in the hope that it'll get fixed in the not too distant future. :)