Annoying Middle Mouse Behavior

[trashcan]

Working with a new mouse. The middle button is set to "middle button" - when I control-click for the flyover tool it shows the icon but doesn't do anything when I try to pan around. Any ideas?

[Jeremy Best]

This is the sort of behaviour I would expect a restart of your computer to resolve. If it doesn't, suspect and account for; a corrupt Workspace file. See if that does it. 

[trashcan]

Any workspace, restarted, same issue. It's only a problem with my wireless mouse. Have removed the preference pane for that mouse, that didn't help. Reinstalled it and confirmed middle mouse button is triggering middle mouse option - but not working properly in VWX. Have ordered another wireless mouse to see if it is mouse specific or a problem with VWX in general. Will also try across different Mac systems + a windows machine to cross check. 

[trashcan]

I can go ahead and confirm that this was mouse specific. The Logitech M557 doesn't play well with the middle button functionality in VWX. The Logitech M510 works great, though. Strange. 

[Jeremy Best]

I'd say it's much less likely the mouse concerned and more likely the drivers developed for it. (Perhaps they don't play nice/responsibly with the operating system's 'mouse actions.') If you submit a bug report to Logitech, you might end up owning two mice that work. 😉

[rDesign]

You could also try a third-party MacOS mouse driver utility like SteerMouse, which is what I use with my Logitech G502 RGB mouse.
 

For me, SteerMouse works much better with Vw than the Logitech drivers. Clicking the middle mouse button with the Logitech drivers it would zoom in uncontrollably while trying to Pan / Orbit. With SteerMouse, I am able to set the button chording and the MMB Pan / Orbit works as it should.

 

They have a 30-day free trial.

Edited September 7, 2020 by rDesign

[Tom Klaber]

Having this problem with the M510