Is it just me, or have the various mouse manufacturer's basically given-up on programmable multi-bottom mouse-drivers for Windows 7? I have several favorite Kensington mice that I've used for years with Datacad, and I'm used to having thumb-bottoms programmed for "n", "back" and so forth. Now with my new laptop, I can't program ANY of the buttons on my existing 6-button mouse. Kensington seems to have abandoned any new drivers or up-grades past Vista for there mice. And Logitech has a very limited palette once past the "standard 3-button" configuration, with very limited programability. Worse I'm finding as I shop for hardware for my new CAD station that most of the multi-button mice on-sale aren't Windows-7 compatible, or you can't re-program any of the buttons...not even the middle scroll-wheel for "n".
Without "n" on the mouse, Datacad is almost unusable.
My other hardware peeve is the lost of the oversized L-shaped return-key. It's bad enough that most "modern" keyboards have no feel or key-travel. I loathe the flat, light and shallow action of my laptop's keyboard...I hit way too-many wrong keys or keys together.
I miss the long, deliberate travel of a manual typewriter. I'm taken to composing long letters or project memos on my manual Underwood Model 5 or Olympus portable then scanning them OCR back into OpenDocs, or as printed or scanned .pdfs.
Without "n" on the mouse, Datacad is almost unusable.
My other hardware peeve is the lost of the oversized L-shaped return-key. It's bad enough that most "modern" keyboards have no feel or key-travel. I loathe the flat, light and shallow action of my laptop's keyboard...I hit way too-many wrong keys or keys together.
I miss the long, deliberate travel of a manual typewriter. I'm taken to composing long letters or project memos on my manual Underwood Model 5 or Olympus portable then scanning them OCR back into OpenDocs, or as printed or scanned .pdfs.