Hello,

I found that both [gemmouse] and [toxy/tot] capture all 3 mousebuttons. I converted a mouse into a usb footswitch, using the middle mouse button only. A DIY version of this:

http://nl.hardware.info/nieuws/19905/scythe-maakt-usb-foot-switch-invoerapparaat

In a gem window, my footswitch works fine, but in a normal Pd patch the problem is that the middle mousebutton is not independent from the left button. It activates bang, toggle etcetera. I want to use the footswitch for things like loop rec start, and it must not trigger GUI's on the screen.

Does anyone know of a way to make bang, toggle etc. not listen to the middle mouse button, with some message on the patch?

Katja

A not so elegant way to get it done is by modifying the pd.tk file. Change line

bind $name.c <Button> {pdtk_canvas_click %W %x %y %b 0}

into

bind $name.c <Button-1> {pdtk_canvas_click %W %x %y %b 0}

and for Linux, disable or delete the lines about <Button-2> for pasting from the X windows clipboard.

I suppose that a gui plugin script could do something like this in Pd 0.43? I'm on Pd-extended 0.42.5 though.

edit: it does not even work properly. All I did is disabling mousedown for the middle button, only mouseup is left for this button. Bah..

Katja