Expose wont recognise my 5 button mouse?

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Hi there,
I have a 5 button mouse. It has the 2 standard buttons, a Back button, a Forward button and a scroll wheel button (and a second scroll).

I wanted to use the scroll wheel click and second scroll wheel to use F9 and F11 Expose. But the Expose Preferences doesn't give me the option.

Any help?

Thanking you.
 
Huh? Can't you program the mouse using it's own set-up? I mean, you don't open the Expose preference pane to program your mouse.
 
Well Expose has basic Mouse features in it's preference pane if you'd be kind enough to check :)

And also, this is the mouse preference pane.

Great, eh?
 

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Try uninstalling the mouse software and see if that helps. If a certain piece of software "takes over" the control of the mouse buttons, then Exposé cannot set it's own functions for those buttons.

By the looks of that Preference Pane, I would have already uninstalled the mouse control software and fired off a rather nasty email to the developers... but that's just me.
 
Cheers El, I'll do that (especially the letter)...
It's a nice mouse, I'm just wondering what the hell they do for "final check procedures". I mean come on, that is an obvious screw up in the driver...
 
Heh... well, does their software implicitly state that it's compatible with 10.3? A lot of lesser-known companies write OS X software that lags behind in compatibility with the most recent release of OS X, and sometimes garbled stuff like that can happen...

Just a thought!
 
Hmm... I told you on iChat and I'll tell you here: Get http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/7115 instead of that ugly driver. ;) (USB Overdrive)

And for Exposé: You set the mouse keys to perform keyboard combos and use the Exposé preference panel to listen to those keyboard combos. Task done.
 
I have a 5 Button M$ Intellieye Explorer 2.0 mouse. The trick to mapping the buttons to Exposé functions is to program the button you want (in your mouse driver software) to type the key allocated to the Exposé feature you want. In my case, for example, my middle mouse button is programmed to be the same as pressing F10 (Exposé application windows).
 
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