![]() I've recently purchased the lovely Apple Magic Mouse and am finding it quite difficult to use with InDesign CS4 - other ID versions would be the same I imagine. It works in web browsers, it works in Finder windows and native applications are adding support as well. #Magicprefs does not recognize magic mouse 1 windows With this mouse you scroll by stroking its top surface, rather like a trackpad. This is excellent in other applications but in ID, because. However, it doesn't work in Eclipse. I want to swipe back and forward when browsing code. I incidentally found a solution for that. There are many programs on the market that augment the Magic Mouse behavior. The reason for their existence is because Apple provides very limited gesture functionality. Other than back/forward and scroll, there's simply no support for other functions, not even Exposé or Spaces which were supported in the previous Mighty Mouse and are supported on the multi-touch trackpads. The most popular tools are MagicPrefs and BetterTouchTool (both free) but there are many others, free and commercial. #Magicprefs does not recognize magic mouse 1 free Personally, I use MagicDriver, which is commercial (free while in beta). The reason I prefer it is because it has much lower CPU utilization, which was an issue for me in MagicPrefs. MagicDriver replaces the back/forward gestures with their keyboard equivalent: ⌘+. These shortcuts are commonly used in OS X. Eclipse, by default, also uses these keyboard shortcuts to navigate back and forward. MagicPrefs and BetterTouchTool will require some customization: you can define the two finger swipe left and right to fire these keyboard shortcuts rather than use the default back/forward functionality. If you use a newer MacBook with a multi-touch trackpad or a Magic Trackpad, you can achieve the same functionality by using BetterTouchTool. AFAIK MagicPrefs does not support it and the current version of MagicDriver doesn't support it either. BetterTouchTool also has the ability to define gestures per application, so you can customize the behavior specifically for Eclipse and leave it as is for the rest of the applications. If you are new to these tools, I should warn you: defining too many gestures doesn't work very well. There are tons of options and it is very easy to get carried away and use as much as you can. However, there's probably a reason why Apple did not include support for all those gestures in the first place. It is very easy to "miss-fire" and perform gestures by accident. ![]() You don't always pay close attention to the number of fingers you have on the surface, so mistakes are very common.
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