Mapping a control to middle mouse button

[Bongo]

Hello all :) First post, so be kind if I managed to miss the answer to this question in a previous thread:

Is there a way to map the sprint control to my middle mouse button? Bear in mind that I use a possibly unorthodox combination of XBox controller, mouse and keyboard to play AoS due to sucking at using wasd. With v0.70 I didn't bother with the sneak control (for example) with my setup but I'm liking sprint and would like to be able to use it a bit more often in a controllable manner.

Thanks :-)

[tw4040]

Hello all :) First post, so be kind if I managed to miss the answer to this question in a previous thread:

Is there a way to map the sprint control to my middle mouse button? Bear in mind that I use a possibly unorthodox combination of XBox controller, mouse and keyboard to play AoS due to sucking at using wasd. With v0.70 I didn't bother with the sneak control (for example) with my setup but I'm liking sprint and would like to be able to use it a bit more often in a controllable manner.

Thanks :-)

I do not think so as the middle mouse button is already used for cycling through the list of items

[kmaj]

Hello all :) First post, so be kind if I managed to miss the answer to this question in a previous thread:

Is there a way to map the sprint control to my middle mouse button? Bear in mind that I use a possibly unorthodox combination of XBox controller, mouse and keyboard to play AoS due to sucking at using wasd. With v0.70 I didn't bother with the sneak control (for example) with my setup but I'm liking sprint and would like to be able to use it a bit more often in a controllable manner.

Thanks :-)

I do not think so as the middle mouse button is already used for cycling through the list of items

I think he meant pressing the middle mouse button, which is a different command.

[tw4040]

Still, I don't think you can do that

[zephir]

I'm wondering about that too.
I would like it very much if mouse3 can be mapped to jump, mouse4 reload, mouse2 ironsights or color selection, mouse5 click-drag building, mouse6 "show mouse"

typically on most FPS games i have half my controls mapped to the mouse since I have trouble doing it all on the keyboard with one hand-- it seems i'm not that coordinated.

[StackOverflow]

There is no native solution for mapping mouse controls, but I'm sure a third-party utility exists to do so.

[Bongo]

Cheers chaps.

Anyway... had a little spare time to look into this and have found a third party solution.

Got AutoHotkey from http://www.autohotkey.com/

and edited the AutoHotkey.ahk script with the following two lines:

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MButton::send {Lshift down}
MButton UP::send {Lshift up}

Just a simple case of running AutoHotkey before starting AoS - and not forgetting to close it after finishing an AoS session of course :-)

UPDATED

If this thread has been of interest/use to anybody, I had to change the script from the above as it was randomly locking the PC up for a few minutes after closing AOS. Luckily somebody at the AutoHotkey forums suggested a better way:

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#IfWinActive, Ace of Spades
MButton::LShift
#IfWinActive

...which is also handy in that middle mouse behaviour will return to normal when you quit AOS and don't quit AHK afterwards. (well.. apart from when browsing this forum, since the active window has "Ace of Spades" in it). Hope that doesn't sound overcomplicated for anybody.