Mouse and Improved productivity for Mac

[RodinBangkok]

In another thread the topic of right click on Mac came up and got me thinking. I thought I'd throw this out to those of you that perhaps are not using the mouse to your best productive advantage on a Mac. With the advent of USB mice there is really no such thing as a Mac mouse anymore.

For instance I use a Logitech wireless. has 8 buttons and scroll. The next trick is the driver. By far the best mouse driver out their is called USBOverdrive it works with about any mouse. You can find it at versiontracker.com. USBOverdrive allows you to set up all buttons and scroll to keystrokes for each application you are in, and the finder. So any command with a keystroke equivalent can be programmed for that app, and it switches automatically for each active app or the finder.

This is particularly advantagous in applications where you can map any command to almost any keystroke via a preference option, unfortunately FM does not have this option, so you are limited to preset keystrokes, but once you set them up it can make life a little easier during development, unfortunately in FM6 you can't scroll with any mouse (FM is really on my list for that).

Rod

[ESpringer]

Mac OS X shareware "MenuMaster" allows assignment of keyboard shortcuts to menu items -- can even assign on the fly by dropping menu, hovering over command name, and typing shortcut, with keystroke's cue thereafter showing across from command name in menu. Amazingly, it even works on the colors in the Format>Text Color menu palette (although those shortcut cues don't have any place to show up besides the pref pane, so I must remember them). I've used it to assign Omit Multiple, Define Relationships, Font Size 10, Format Number, and all sorts of other stuff.

A preliminary test (off the cuff just now) shows that such keystrokes can then be assigned to a custom USB input device, too...

[RodinBangkok]

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I'll give it a try and see if it works with overdrive.

Rod