I work(.Net) with an A4Tech X7 mouse (X710F). It is useful for programming because it has programmable side buttons. I use theese for copy and paste. (much more faster than Ctrl+C - Ctrl+V)
It has a nice 3Xfire button which is a fun but it is good-for nothing. It should useful if it would be a double click button. Because double click on a word == select word. Unfortunately it is not reprogrammable from built in driver software. I scanned google, forums and everywhere without any luck to find something to change this. Finally I found a very useful program:
http://www.autohotkey.com/
I read a lot from it's help and checked forums but I can't found solution to reduce number of click, so I tried to research my own algorythm :). After a lot of buggy version i found the solution which works always for me.
(the only little problem with it is in total commander left click on a file. It has to be changed to windows method in TC settings)
Here is the final version of AHK script (after a lot of hours spent to solve this little trick :) ):
LButton::
if (First = 0)
{
Clicks := 0
First := 1
}
If (A_ThisHotkey = A_PriorHotkey)
{
If (A_TimeSincePriorHotkey <= 157 && A_TimeSincePriorHotkey > 122)
{
If (Clicks = 0)
{
Clicks := 1
}
else
{
Clicks := 0
Return
}
}
else
{
Clicks := 0
}
}
else
{
Clicks := 0
}
Click Down
KeyWait, LButton
Click Up
Return
It is a small script but it was not as easy as it looks like. I tried with tilde, timers, in every combination, but this works :). I have a double click button :).
(maybe I am stupid because I am happy with this).
While finding this solution i added some other useful programming speed-up trick to AHK script.
Just an idea: left Click + Left mouse move: Cut selected text.
I hope You found this useful.
P.S. I found that there are some new a4Tech Product on market which seems to be better for programming than this one: A4-Tech K5-52D 16in1 I think it is programmable for double click function, and it has built in mouse "gestures" function.
