What kind of mouse do you have?

Contests 4K Game Competition - 2009
#1

I’m planning for the game i’m writing to use the mouse wheel, and i’m wondering how many people will be excluded if I don’t provide alternate controls.

Also, the number of buttons will help determine whether an alternate control scheme could be a click&drag behaviour on mouse button 3.

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I bet “2 Button with Touchpad edge-scrolling” turns out to be a realy common “Other” vote ::slight_smile:

#2

I said 2 buttons + wheel, but I am usually on a laptop. Sometimes I have a mouse with 2 buttons and a wheel, and other jsut two buttons.

#3

I have a pen & tablet. FWIW

#4

I have 5 buttons plus wheel (wheel can also be pressed down so it is a 5 button mouse)

http://www.razerzone.com/p-69-razer-deathadder-gaming-mouse.aspx

#5

my laptop is a tablet aswell :).

but the keyboard is necessary, coding with the touch screen…

#6

Thanks to everyone for the feedback thus far; looks like mouse wheels are much more common than I was expecting!
Though a programming forum is a rather specialist audience.

#7

AFAIK the standard apple mouse only have one button and no wheel, so you would effectively exclude nearly every mac casual gamer…

#8

Mr Wikipedia says

[quote]Until 2005, Mac computers have shipped with a single-button mouse. Apple released the four-button Mighty Mouse in August 2005, and a wireless version in July 2006, and began to ship it with new desktop Macs.
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#9

Oh well, their loss ;D

Actually, are you sure about that?
I thought Apple had finally conceded that having a mouse with more than 1 button was not a blasphemy!

Having worked in the accursed world of J2ME for a long time, i’ve come to the conclusion that supporting the lowest common denominator hinders both innovation in software & progression of hardware.
Unless the poll takes a significantly new direction, I think I might save myself a few dozen bytes & make the game require a mouse wheel.

I’m sure if people are realy interested, they can stretch to a usb mouse with wheel from Poundland / Dollar Tree :wink:

#10

That gets half my vote. The other half goes to a trackball which does have a wheel, but positioned such that I can’t use it if I’m also using the keyboard. (Mutter about bias towards right-handers).