Scroll speed & side button fix w/ steermouse

#0 - Dec. 10, 2009, 3:37 p.m.
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There is a program called steermouse which is pretty widely used in the Mac community for advanced mouse configuration, including buttons, scrolling and cursor speed. I have been using it for months.
One feature is that it allows you to make these customizations on a per application basis. I have always had a custom entry for WoW, mapping buttons 4 and 5 on my mouse to the system default so I don't need to deal with the cmd left and right mapping and they come through as mouse button 4 and 5 directly in WoW.

When I first noticed the scroll issue with patch 3.3, I minimized WoW and opened the steermouse configuration panel. I went to my custom settings for WoW and then the wheel settings. I changed scroll up and scroll down to be custom settings and set each scroll 'click' to be sent as 3 'clicks' (only for WoW, leaving the rest of my system alone). I switched back to WoW and my scroll wheel immediately was working as normal, 1 click of the wheel does exactly what it should.

I know that using a 3rd party program is not ideal (especially a non-free one), but they have a free trial which should be enough, for anyone who depends heavily on proper scrolling,to get by until the hotfix patch is released.

http://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/index.html
#1 - Dec. 10, 2009, 4:39 p.m.
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and from Apple's own website:

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/drivers/steermouse.html