center mouse on Mac OS X?

[Bogatyr]

How can I center the roll/pitch when using the mouse? Just discovered the shift-M option and I see the "middle click" to center in various threads discussing this -- but I'm using an apple mouse and there is only one button.....? Tried various things like double clicking, using ctrl- and shift-click, but nothing works.....?

thanks for any info,
CmdrLuke (Bogatyr)

[Eric Walch]

Sound familiar. I had the same problem. Instead you must use ctrl-click to centre it. Not very friendly if you constantly need the keyboard next to the mouse. That is also the reason I never really tried mouse control.

The only working thing would be to go to the mouse preferences and define it as a double button mouse. (Defining two buttons is possible on both the Magic and mighty mouse). But as a purist, I want keep using the original single buttoned mouse.

[Bogatyr]

Sound familiar. I had the same problem. Instead you must use ctrl-click to centre it. Not very friendly if you constantly need the keyboard next to the mouse. That is also the reason I never really tried mouse control.

The only working thing would be to go to the mouse preferences and define it as a double button mouse. (Defining two buttons is possible on both the Magic and mighty mouse). But as a purist, I want keep using the original single buttoned mouse.

I just tried again, and no modifiers: ctrl, alt, cmd, shift, right cmd, right alt, etc. + click worked to center the pitch/roll. I suppose I can try with a windows 3-button mouse, but yuck

[Diziet Sma]

What's "yuck" is having to use the keyboard and mouse for what should be a simple, single-click operation!

I don't understand how you mac-people can put up with it..

The Mac magic mouse, on the other hand, is a way cool gadget!

[Eric Walch]

Bogatyr, you are right: ctrl-click does not simulate the right mouse click like most programs do. Apparently I never tested that part. Defining the mouse into a two buttoned mouse does work and I have used it for testing. But, I want to keep the one-buttoned mouse for my other stuff, so changing it every time for Oolite is no option.

The Mac magic mouse, on the other hand, is a way cool gadget!

Yep, Two weeks after I got a mac with a magic mouse, I decided to also replace my mighty mouse of the other mac by a magic mouse. The whole surface is touchpad allowing to swipe and doing all other cool stuff that you can do with a touchpad on a notebook. One thing is defining unlimited mouse buttons with the right software.
Apple only allows defining one or two buttons, but I already found software that projected a numeric keypad on it.

[Commander McLane]

The Mac magic mouse, on the other hand, is a way cool gadget!

Yep, Two weeks after I got a mac with a magic mouse, I decided to also replace my mighty mouse of the other mac by a magic mouse. The whole surface is touchpad allowing to swipe and doing all other cool stuff that you can do with a touchpad on a notebook.

I'm not impressed. It seems you can only do one- and two-finger gestures. On my touchpad I have three- and four-finger gestures as well.

[Eric Walch]

On my touchpad I have .... four-finger gestures as well.

You mean three finger and one thumb.

The magic mouse does allow more fingers, it is just that apple does not provide the software for it. When you install magicPrefs, also the magic mouse accepts 4 'finger' commands.

I just never tested it because my iMacs run on 10.6

[maaarcooose]

I've got a magic mouse too and have defined it to have 3 buttons using MagicPrefs.

I don't tend to use it for playing OOlite though as I stick to the keyboard or my joystick when I drag it out.
I still find the magic mouse a bit clunky to use when working in Wings and other apps where a little more precision is required but I'm giving it my best shot.

!m!

[Mad Dan Eccles]

I had to buy a new mouse for one of my Macs a while back, but diverted from Magic Mouse to BT touchpad (can't remember what Apple call it) at the last moment.

So glad I did. I much prefer touchpads to mice. Four fingers, swipes, thumbs; EVERYTHING.

But this still cracks me up:

[maaarcooose]

I used to hate touchpads till I got my macbook. The gestures and size make it much more useful. I used to have a netbook with a touchpad the size of my thumb.

I still find I want a nice 3 button mouse though when I'm doing serious work.

!m!

[Commander McLane]

On my touchpad I have .... four-finger gestures as well.

You mean three finger and one thumb.

No, I actually mean four fingers (for Exposé and for switching between applications (although I'm not usually using the horizontal movement (I'm not a Disney cartoon character, therefore I do have four fingers ))).

[Bogatyr]

Back a year & a half later, and need to figure out (again!) how to center the mouse on OS X. This time I'm using a usb 2-button mouse with a wheel middle button. Ctrl-left click doesn't do it, neither does middle click or right click.

Is there a keyboard key for center mouse? That would be ideal. Do I have to build Oolite from source in order to make mouse-center work? If I wanted to change the keymap to do this, what file would I modify?

thanks,
CmdrLuke (Bogatyr)