RE: Intellimouse (IntelliPoint) in FrameMaker [DEFINITIVE!]

[Jim Stauffer <jstauffer@xxxxxxx>]

Or, just give up on Microsoft and buy a mouse or trackball from Kensington
(my favotite) or some other reliable manufacturer.

Jim Stauffer

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hedley_finger@myob.com.au [mailto:hedley_finger@myob.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 11:48 PM
> To: framers@frameusers.com; framers@omsys.com
> Subject: RE: Intellimouse (IntelliPoint) in FrameMaker [DEFINITIVE!]
> 
> 
> 
> Terri, Carol, and all:
> 
> > > > I just started my first tech writing job and my 
> coworkers tell me
> that I
> > > > can scroll via mouse in Frame as well as in Word. I 
> went to the site
> > > > posted in an earlier message by Dov Isaacs, but the 
> page no longer
> exists.
> > > >
> > > > I found my way to the driver for IntelliPoint mouse 
> software version
> 4.01.
> > > > (No other version seems to be available) and downloaded it.
> > > >
> > > > Alas, my new IntelliMouse wheel works in Word but not 
> in FrameMaker.
> >
> > I have a Gateway Tower that came with a Primax wheel mouse 
> and Primax
> > drivers.  [...]  I scrounged a Microsoft
> > Intellimouse, downloaded the driver installer, and installed away.
> Trouble
> > is that some unholy combination of executable files 
> resulted, so that
> > FrameMaker repeatedly crashed.  [...]
> >
> > At great cost to my mental stability I managed to remove the Primax
> drivers
> > and re-install Intellimouse from scratch, when FrameMaker scrolled
> > perfectly and did not crash.
> 
> I discovered that, in fact, the IntelliPoint 4.01 mouse 
> drivers locked up
> FrameMaker 6.0 when you attempted to use autoscroll.  
> [Autoscroll is where
> you PRESS the wheel to paste a wafer with up and down arrows onto your
> document window.  Then, as you move the pointer above or 
> below the wafer,
> the document scrolls towards the wafer.  Move the mouse over 
> the wafer and
> scrolling stops.  The further above or below the wafer the 
> pointer is, the
> faster the scroll.  Press the wheel again to remove the wafer.]
> 
> However, there is a counter-intuitive fix to make the 
> IntelliMouse wheel
> work with FM 6 in Windows 2000.
> 
> 1    Download the Intellipoint 4.01 drivers from
>      <http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouse/download.asp>
>      and install.
> 
> 2    Choose Start > Programs > Microsoft Mouse (standard installation)
>      to open the control panel.
> 
> 3    In the Mouse Properties dialogue,
>      @    click the Buttons tab,
>      @    mark the Enable Program-Specific Button Settings check box,
>      @    and click the Settings button.
> 
> 4    In the Advanced Button Settings dialogue,
>      @    click Add to browse to the location of the 
> FrameMaker.exe file,
> and
>      @    change the Wheel Button drop-list to Forward.
> 
> 5    Click OK to exit the Advanced Button Settings dialogue.
> 
> 6    In the Mouse Properties dialogue, make any other 
> customizations you
> want.
> 
> Now, autoscroll will work as advertised, EVEN THOUGH you 
> selected Forward
> for the wheel action, and your other scrolling preferences 
> will also be
> honoured.
> 
> IntelliPoint -- great software from a grate company!   8^)
> 
> [Windows 2000, IntelliMouse (the first Microsoft wheel mouse 
> with unequally
> sized buttons, and an "ergonomic" palm grip bent like the tip 
> of a hockey
> stick), FrameMaker 6.0p405, FrameScript 1.27C01, Enhance 2.03,
> Acrobat 4.05.2, mif2go 31r25, IXgen 5.5.h]
> 
> Regards,
> Hedley
> 
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> Hedley Finger
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