does anyone know of a mouse that has an extra button that can be assigned to ctrl function? am having surgery on my left hand and will be in a cast making 2 key functions near impossible.
or has anyone come up with an alternate solution?
No idea, but not through Rhino.
If the mouse has software for assigning commands to buttons, that might work it the command is passed through to the running application.
If it worked, then Rhino would “hear” the button with what you assigned to it.
However, Ctrl isn’t really a “click”.
I’ve never seen a mouse with a button that worked like Shift/Ctrl/Alt but I suppose it’s worth a try.
these seem to be conflicting opinions? i am a pretty basic user so i could do with just a ctrl button on the mouse but can see that other common selections would also be nice.
alan, is one button mapped for just ctrl? if so, did you have to assign different applications when mapping? have been looking at logitech’s site but they don’t seem to say too much about what can and can’t be mapped.
Yes, you can affect keys like Ctrl to a button.
In my case, I just have to click a button on the virtual mouse to get a dialog box where I choose the key or combination of keys I want to affect to the button.
Here is my mapping:
This way I get basic keys as
Tab Alt
Shift Ctrl
Esc Del
Home End
but also
combined with keys defined in Rhino Options | Keyboard
Key Command macro
F5 '_ProjectOsnap _Toggle
Ctrl+ F5 _Trim
Ctrl+Shift+ F5 _Split
Home _Rotate
Shift+ Home _Rotate3D
End _Move
Shift+ End _SetPt
Ctrl+Shift+ O '_Invert _Hide
Ctrl+Shift+ X ! _Mirror _XAxis
makes my life easier with Rhino !
many thanks, that looks to be just what i need.