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Color and Shake 3 Button Mouses

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kkachurak

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Jun 26, 2007
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I've noticed that to best interface with both Shake and Color, a three button mouse is recommended.

Which three buttons mouses are y'all using out there and to what degree of success?

Thanks much.
 
I'm a three-button mouse fan, myself, and also use one for Maya (Maya and I both come from a three-button-centric SGI background). Anyway, I use a Logitech Marble Mouse optical trackball and really love it. It's great with my MBP, as I don't need much desk-space to use it and it's big and hefty for smoothness and precision.
 
What ever you do DO NOT get the Logitech MX 1000, dont get me wrong its a great mouse but unless I'm mistaken you cannot use the scroll wheel as a 3rd button...

Well, I haven't goten it to work :(
 
i can't seem to get the scroll ball of my mighty mouse to work in Shake - anyone know why? - I scroll and the scroll bars don't move, i have to click and drag.
 
I forgot to mention an important feature (for me) of the Marble Mouse trackball: the third (middle) button options are not a scroll-wheel! I've tried using a clickable scroll-wheel as a third button and, for me, it doesn't work very well for high-sensitivity applications; it's too easy to inadvertently move your cursor around (or change some attribute value) by tipping the scroll-wheel when you only intend to click it.
 
fluidedge said:
i can't seem to get the scroll ball of my mighty mouse to work in Shake - anyone know why? - I scroll and the scroll bars don't move, i have to click and drag.
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Do you have this button assigned to something else, like to bring up Dashboard? You'll have to change that assignment to "3rd mouse button" in the system prefs before it works with Shake.

- Martin
 
kkachurak said:
I've noticed that to best interface with both Shake and Color, a three button mouse is recommended.

Which three buttons mouses are y'all using out there and to what degree of success?

Thanks much.
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Wacom Tablet. try it learn it love it.
 
AviationFan said:
Do you have this button assigned to something else, like to bring up Dashboard? You'll have to change that assignment to "3rd mouse button" in the system prefs before it works with Shake.

- Martin
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yeh i've done all that - it's just when i go to "open" i can't scroll down the pop up window, i have to click on the bar to move it. Is that normal?
 
realfx said:
Wacom Tablet. try it learn it love it.
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This ended up being the route I took. Thanks.

I got the Bamboo (which I guess is their consumer version of their standard tablet).

So far, using the pen has been great in Element and Motion. I'll have to look into my preferences to get the third button (scroll wheel) to work in Color and Shake.
 
fluidedge said:
when i go to "open" i can't scroll down the pop up window, i have to click on the bar to move it. Is that normal?
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No. You should be able to scroll the contents of the file selection popup window just like any other Shake window: by holding down the middle mouse button and moving the mouse. Just tried it, works fine for me with a mighty mouse.

- Martin
 
ah - hang on.

Holding down the middle button and dragging is different from scrolling. I will try this.
 
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