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Offline hth

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[Suggestion] Swap RMB and MMB functions in items/research lists
« on: February 10, 2025, 11:14:50 pm »
Now most used functions (access to pedia & tech tree viewer) are assigned to MMB, which on most mouses combined with mwhell and so not as handly to use as RMB, which are currently assigned to pretty secondary function of marking items as new or hidden.

PS Also such maneuver should notable reduce amount of misclicks, which are hide important techs from sight and so confuse new players a lot (I just read about "not able research a tech" "bug" three times now for three minutes of reading of random topics here)
« Last Edit: February 11, 2025, 01:42:33 am by hth »

Offline Meridian

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Re: [Suggestion] Swap RMB and MMB functions in items/research lists
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2025, 09:05:55 am »
No.

People are already used to RMB and MMB.
I don't have any desire of making hundreds of posts on the forum invalid.
And I have even less desire answering inevitable questions about why was it changed for the next 10 years.

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Re: [Suggestion] Swap RMB and MMB functions in items/research lists
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2025, 12:58:25 pm »
If you still really want this, you can do so via a 3rd party tools that remap mouse buttons like 'Mouse and Keyboard Center' from MS or 'X-Mouse Button Control' and they can be configured on a program to program basis, no need to mess the buttons for the entire system.

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Re: [Suggestion] Swap RMB and MMB functions in items/research lists
« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2025, 12:25:23 am »
If you still really want this, you can do so via a 3rd party tools that remap mouse buttons like 'Mouse and Keyboard Center' from MS or 'X-Mouse Button Control' and they can be configured on a program to program basis, no need to mess the buttons for the entire system.
Thanks, I'm already use two remappers at once for making useless "left windows" key acting as MMB, because that notebook touchpad lacks it.

But MMB - RMB swapping is anyway impossible, because it will change also battlescape behavior.