Arcade button that functions like mouse button?

[ArcadeFX]

Any way to make an arcade button function like a mouse button so you can drag and drop?

[slug54]

I use mine along with my happs track ball and opti-pac
to drag and drop.It should work fine. Now I did have a problem with mine when I first built it that I couldn't drag and drop or drag a scroll bar on a window. What fixed it was deleting  the mouse out of windows device manager and re-booting and letting it re-detect.

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[u_rebelscum]

Any way to make an arcade button function like a mouse button so you can drag and drop?

The button must be connected through the same "mouse" as the trackball to drag and drop.  (I'm assuming you're talking about using an arcade button and a trackball)  So if you hacked a mouse to the trackball, the button must be connected to the same hacked mouse; if you hooked the TB through an optipac the button needs to also.  Single clicking will work even if the button and TB go through different connections, but not dragging/dropping.

Tech:  This is due to how windows gets the mouse messages.  You can test this with two mice.  Select some text.  Move the pointer over the selected text and click and hold a button on one mouse (like you are about to drag and drop the text).  Then move the other mouse.  Notice that once you move the other mouse, the text is dropped.  When the second mouse moves, it sends it's status: movement + no buttons pressed.  Windows sees this more resent data as more current than the other mouse's last message sent when its button was pressed.  Therefore, the movement and button info must come from the same mouse to drag and drop.

[hotboy_92]

The windows program Joy2key can translate any joystick button or axis into either a keyboard press, keyboard combo, mouse button press or mousewheel.

I use it to map the buttons on my PSX controller to 1p coin, 1p start and ESC. I also use it to map the buttons on my PSX Beatmania controller to mouse buttons in DJ programs so I can scratch and mute the virtual decks with one hand.

[ArcadeFX]

I am not using a mouse hack.  Correct me if I am wrong but happ button or microswitch buttons are simple a click not a continual press.   Meaning that when you click a mouse button you can hold it in the down position. With a microswitch you cannot do this, right?  A microswitch simply makes a click and that is all.

Is anyone not using a mouse hack and can drag a window around the screen by pressing happ button?

[Lilwolf]

It's just like a button.  Not a click, but you continue to make the connection like an arcade button.

[Chris]

Correct me if I am wrong but happ button or microswitch buttons are simple a click not a continual press.   Meaning that when you click a mouse button you can hold it in the down position. With a microswitch you cannot do this, right?  A microswitch simply makes a click and that is all.

This is not correct.  If it was, you wouldn't be ablef to play games like Track and Field, or hold a microswitch-based joystic in a direction.

--Chris

[ArcadeFX]

I wonder why I can't drag a window or an icon on my desktop then using the happ button then?

[u_rebelscum]

I wonder why I can't drag a window or an icon on my desktop then using the happ button then?

Maybe you posted how somewhere else, but how is your buttons and trackball connected?  Both through an optipac, I guess?  Should work, especially if the button can used for clicking and double clicking.

I can drag and drop with my trackball/arcade button/optipac, and TB/button/happs interface connnections if the button and trackball are connected to the same thing.

Other thing: do you have an other mouse connected, too?  I had a problem with my optical mouse sending data when I bumped the table or was not on a suface, making drag-n-dropping impossible.

[slug54]

Ed
If your using windows try deleting the mice from device manager and re-detecting like I suggested earlier.
I fought this problem for months it was really annoying.
I posted several messages to this board and also had several E-mail conversations with Andy wayrne ,I had lots of things to try but still couldn't get it to drag and drop.I went as far as to hack a mouse pcb and connecting the buttons to it , But surprise it still didn't work even after by-passing the opti-pac. I detached my C-panel and connected it to my other pc and it worked fine. deleting and re-detecting worked for me . I may have deleted the serial port also but I'm pretty sure I just deleted the mouse.
here was my config.

Windows 98se
Opti-pac with serial connection
Oscar spinner
Happs 3"track ball
Happ buttons
I-pac
 
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                                          Slug54