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Locut0s

Locut0s

Lifer
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I just replaced my much beloved Logitech MX Revolution (you will be missed :'(, it got to the point where I was putting saliva on the contacts to get the thing to charge, licking my fingers then touching the contacts) with a logitech G700. I've temporarely given the MX to my father, see if we can find a solution to the chargin issue. This fucker advertises 13 programmable buttons, it's more like 10 or 11 though as they count pushing the scroll wheel to the right and left as buttons. Aside from the default back and forward browsing buttons I've got 2 others assigned to copy and paste. I'll assign the others as I find good uses for them. Great mouse for RPG and RTS gamers! I'm still getting used to the feel but so far it's very nice.

How many buttons does your mouse have, and how have you assigned them?
 
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Jeff7

Jeff7

Lifer
Jan 4, 2001
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10. Logitech G500.
- 3 on the wheel, though I only really use the left side notch, assigned to Ctrl. The middle-click isn't terribly easy to use, and the right side just isn't in a natural direction for my fingers to apply force.
- 2 for sensitivity adjust, though I've assigned them as Back/Forward
- Left and right buttons
- 3 thumb buttons. One serves as middle-click, another is Shift, and the remaining one is Ctrl-F4.

Also there's the button for the awesome scroll wheel, to toggle the free-spinning scroll and ratcheting scroll.

Now if only Logitech would come out with an upright variant, preferably in trackball format. The whole twisted-arm thing for regular mice is starting to wear on my wrist, and the handshake-position for mice just doesn't seem to be as good in terms of pixel-fine control. An upright trackball mouse might be the ticket, but I've not seen a trackball that offers the number of buttons that the G500 has, as well as that kind of scroll wheel.

It's seriously the best scroll wheel I've ever used. The toggling between the free-spinning and ratcheted mode is very handy, and it's weighted like a flywheel, so even when it's in the ratchet mode, a good spin will still move it along several notches.


I'm still waiting for a USB jack on the side of my head, so that I can just plug in a control device directly, and not bother with these damn primitive manual interfaces. :D
 
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gaidensensei

gaidensensei

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May 31, 2003
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This makes me wonder why they never made mice similar to the concept of FiveFinger shoes?
We have 5 fingers, but we only end up using the thumb to the middle finger most of the time, and the last 2 are generally inept for doing anything on mice.

Why don't they make a mouse with a button for each finger? Wonder how it would work. :hmm:
 
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nageov3t

Lifer
Feb 18, 2004
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5... 8 if you count the ability to push the wheel to either side or down, but those buttons would need to be programmed and I don't have rights to install the logitech software on my work computer.

left/right click, two thumb buttons (defaulted to back/forward), and the center wheel
 
Locut0s

Locut0s

Lifer
Nov 28, 2001
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Jeff7 said:
10. Logitech G500.
- 3 on the wheel, though I only really use the left side notch, assigned to Ctrl. The middle-click isn't terribly easy to use, and the right side just isn't in a natural direction for my fingers to apply force.
- 2 for sensitivity adjust, though I've assigned them as Back/Forward
- Left and right buttons
- 3 thumb buttons. One serves as middle-click, another is Shift, and the remaining one is Ctrl-F4.

Also there's the button for the awesome scroll wheel, to toggle the free-spinning scroll and ratcheting scroll.

Now if only Logitech would come out with an upright variant, preferably in trackball format. The whole twisted-arm thing for regular mice is starting to wear on my wrist, and the handshake-position for mice just doesn't seem to be as good in terms of pixel-fine control. An upright trackball mouse might be the ticket, but I've not seen a trackball that offers the number of buttons that the G500 has, as well as that kind of scroll wheel.

It's seriously the best scroll wheel I've ever used. The toggling between the free-spinning and ratcheted mode is very handy, and it's weighted like a flywheel, so even when it's in the ratchet mode, a good spin will still move it along several notches.

I'm still waiting for a USB jack on the side of my head, so that I can just plug in a control device directly, and not bother with these damn primitive manual interfaces. :D
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The MX Revolution is the mouse that pioneered the flywheel. A lot of their mice now have it including the G700 I just bought.
 
Jeff7

Jeff7

Lifer
Jan 4, 2001
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Locut0s said:
The MX Revolution is the mouse that pioneered the flywheel. A lot of their mice now have it including the G700 I just bought.
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Good. It's a very good scrollwheel, no doubt.

I very nearly bought the Trackball M570 to help with some achy joints, and planned to make something like this stand for it, but it lacks the good scrollwheel - and there are numerous complaints that its scrollwheel is cheaply made, and starts to squeak after a relatively short period of ownership. It also lacks the sheer number of buttons that the G500 has.

And part of the other issue I've got is that any pointing device requires clicking, thus my index finger wouldn't get a rest anyway. I thought of a cool input device would be to have accelerometers on each finger, and maybe a few on the back of my hand as well - a computer could be controlled then without the need to apply any appreciable force to a button, and it could be used in any orientation. It'd take some R&D work for sure though, so that things like pulsing veins, or slight random twitching or unsteady hands wouldn't trigger false readings, while still allowing for pixel-precise tracking.
 
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Locut0s

Locut0s

Lifer
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Jeff7 said:
Good. It's a very good scrollwheel, no doubt.

I very nearly bought the Trackball M570 to help with some achy joints, and planned to make something like this stand for it, but it lacks the good scrollwheel - and there are numerous complaints that its scrollwheel is cheaply made, and starts to squeak after a relatively short period of ownership. It also lacks the sheer number of buttons that the G500 has.

And part of the other issue I've got is that any pointing device requires clicking, thus my index finger wouldn't get a rest anyway. I thought of a cool input device would be to have accelerometers on each finger, and maybe a few on the back of my hand as well - a computer could be controlled then without the need to apply any appreciable force to a button, and it could be used in any orientation. It'd take some R&D work for sure though, so that things like pulsing veins, or slight random twitching or unsteady hands wouldn't trigger false readings, while still allowing for pixel-precise tracking.
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Wait for them to perfect brain machine interfaces for mouse control. It's not very far off. They actually have a few products on the market but they aren't mature yet.
 
rudeguy

rudeguy

Lifer
Dec 27, 2001
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Jeff7 said:
10. Logitech G500.
- 3 on the wheel, though I only really use the left side notch, assigned to Ctrl. The middle-click isn't terribly easy to use, and the right side just isn't in a natural direction for my fingers to apply force.
- 2 for sensitivity adjust, though I've assigned them as Back/Forward
- Left and right buttons
- 3 thumb buttons. One serves as middle-click, another is Shift, and the remaining one is Ctrl-F4.

Also there's the button for the awesome scroll wheel, to toggle the free-spinning scroll and ratcheting scroll.

Now if only Logitech would come out with an upright variant, preferably in trackball format. The whole twisted-arm thing for regular mice is starting to wear on my wrist, and the handshake-position for mice just doesn't seem to be as good in terms of pixel-fine control. An upright trackball mouse might be the ticket, but I've not seen a trackball that offers the number of buttons that the G500 has, as well as that kind of scroll wheel.

It's seriously the best scroll wheel I've ever used. The toggling between the free-spinning and ratcheted mode is very handy, and it's weighted like a flywheel, so even when it's in the ratchet mode, a good spin will still move it along several notches.


I'm still waiting for a USB jack on the side of my head, so that I can just plug in a control device directly, and not bother with these damn primitive manual interfaces. :D
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holy hell....why don't you just use a power glove?

2 buttons plus a scroll wheel, so 3.
 
Zen0

Zen0

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I use a Razer Orochi, basically the best Bluetooth mouse you can find on the market that isn't an Apple mouse (which has too few buttons).
 
Locut0s

Locut0s

Lifer
Nov 28, 2001
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God Mode said:
Mice without the back/forward buttons on the side piss me off so much.
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Haha lol. Now that I've been using one for so long I always go to click them even if they aren't there. It's sad to use a mouse without them :(
 
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