An alternative to Apple's Bluetooth mouse

Nov 13, '03 09:50:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I realize this may not be "OSX Hint - worthy", but here it is:

The Microsoft Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer for Bluetooth works out of the box with Apple's Powerbooks with built in bluetooth. All buttons and the scroll wheel are supported directly by OS X without any additional Microsoft drivers. In fact, Microsoft drivers for the Mac don't seem to exist for this product.

I ran across the mouse at a local retailer, and we had a heck of a time trying to figure out if this would work. We found plenty of evidence that it would work using the Bluetooth USB base unit bundled with the mouse, but found virtually nothing suggesting the mouse would work properly with Apple's built in module. I purchased the mouse anyway and had it working in about a minute using Apple's "Setup a Bluetooth Device" option from the Bluetooth menu item.

Unfortunately, although the mouse is supported by the OS, not a single game I've yet tried will recognize all five buttons properly. Most games see two, three or four buttons, plus the scroll wheel if applicable, but not all five. Does anyone know how to map bluetooth mouse buttons to keys? Something like USB Overdrive but for bluetooth?

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