Mouse wheel phenomenon

[rfdjr1]

Not sure where to post this, so I'll start here. It's about a strange thing I
just noticed. I have a Logitech MXX Revolution Blue Tooth laser mouse. I
normally use Sea Monkey as a browser. It's a Mozilla thing. In twenty years if
computing, I have stayed away from Internet Explorer. I never liked it. That
being said, I've noticed that when I'm browsing in Sea Monkey, when I use the
scroll wheel on the mouse, it clicks with every turn of the wheel. Actually, it
does so in all applications where I use the wheel. However, when I use the mouse
on the few rare occasions I use Internet Explorer, there is no clicking when I
turn the wheel. It turns smoothly and silently. How can a software program
affect sounds coming from a mouse? I mean, it seems to me that the clicking as I
call it, is a mechanical thing in the mouse. How would that be disabled? I see
no settings for the mouse ti make it silent. Nothing that pops out anyway.
Thanks for any insight.

 

[Drew]

Not sure where to post this, so I'll start here. It's about a strange thing I
just noticed. I have a Logitech MXX Revolution Blue Tooth laser mouse. I
normally use Sea Monkey as a browser. It's a Mozilla thing. In twenty years if
computing, I have stayed away from Internet Explorer. I never liked it. That
being said, I've noticed that when I'm browsing in Sea Monkey, when I use the
scroll wheel on the mouse, it clicks with every turn of the wheel. Actually, it
does so in all applications where I use the wheel. However, when I use the mouse
on the few rare occasions I use Internet Explorer, there is no clicking when I
turn the wheel. It turns smoothly and silently. How can a software program
affect sounds coming from a mouse? I mean, it seems to me that the clicking as I
call it, is a mechanical thing in the mouse. How would that be disabled? I see
no settings for the mouse ti make it silent. Nothing that pops out anyway.
Thanks for any insight.

Not that it helps you in-particular because I have not seen that
behavior,however on one of my machines with a mx revolution there is a
switch located on the bottom of the mouse that changes the wheel from a
"click" wheel to a "silent" wheel

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I mean, it seems to me that the clicking as I
call it, is a mechanical thing in the mouse. How would that be disabled? I
see
no settings for the mouse ti make it silent. Nothing that pops out anyway.
Thanks for any insight.

I agree 100% with your analysis here.

I have had mouses that click and mouses that don't, but never one that
did both (I never had one with the switch that Drew mentioned).

BTW, I hate some Microsoft mouses because they don't click...as you
might guess, I prefer the click.

 

[VanguardLH]

Not sure where to post this, so I'll start here. It's about a strange
thing I just noticed. I have a Logitech MXX Revolution Blue Tooth
laser mouse. I normally use Sea Monkey as a browser. It's a Mozilla
thing. In twenty years if computing, I have stayed away from Internet
Explorer. I never liked it. That being said, I've noticed that when
I'm browsing in Sea Monkey, when I use the scroll wheel on the mouse,
it clicks with every turn of the wheel. Actually, it does so in all
applications where I use the wheel. However, when I use the mouse on
the few rare occasions I use Internet Explorer, there is no clicking
when I turn the wheel. It turns smoothly and silently. How can a
software program affect sounds coming from a mouse? I mean, it seems
to me that the clicking as I call it, is a mechanical thing in the
mouse. How would that be disabled? I see no settings for the mouse ti
make it silent. Nothing that pops out anyway.

From the online manual
(http://www.logitech.com/repository/1400/pdf/25312.1.0.pdf):

MX Revolution's unique MicroGear Scroll Wheel gives you a choice of
two scrolling modes: hyper-fast and precision ratcheting.

For hyper-fast scrolling, the high-precision, frictionless wheel spins
freely - great for speeding through long documents and Web pages. For
precision, ratchets engage to give you crisp, click-to-click rotation
- perfect for navigating lists, slides, and image collections.

Click the scroll wheel to shift between modes or activate Logitech
SmartShift mode within SetPoint.

SetPoint is Logitech's latest all-encompassing mouse software. It
replaced MouseWare; however, I continue using Mouseware since SetPoint
is bloated and causes behavior that I don't like in my old Logitech
mice. I suspect you are used to middle-clicking (i.e., clicking the
scroll wheel) to close a tab or other common web browser operation. For
example, middle clicking on a tab in IE7/8 will close it. Maybe
SetPoint's middle click doesn't work in non-IE web browsers (so you get
the middle-click you expect rather than a masked or programmed function)
or the behavior is different. So you are middle-clicking away in the
other web browsers but when you get into IE then the SmartShift gets in
the way.

So look at SetPoint to see how SmartShift is configured. Since it has
two scroll wheels, you'll have to experiment which one you "click the
scroll wheel to shift" modes.

 

[vortch]

Not sure where to post this, so I'll start here. It's about a strange thing I
just noticed. I have a Logitech MXX Revolution Blue Tooth laser mouse. I
normally use Sea Monkey as a browser. It's a Mozilla thing. In twenty years if
computing, I have stayed away from Internet Explorer. I never liked it. That
being said, I've noticed that when I'm browsing in Sea Monkey, when I use the
scroll wheel on the mouse, it clicks with every turn of the wheel. Actually, it
does so in all applications where I use the wheel. However, when I use the mouse
on the few rare occasions I use Internet Explorer, there is no clicking when I
turn the wheel. It turns smoothly and silently. How can a software program
affect sounds coming from a mouse? I mean, it seems to me that the clicking as I
call it, is a mechanical thing in the mouse. How would that be disabled? I see
no settings for the mouse ti make it silent. Nothing that pops out anyway.
Thanks for any insight.

Open the SetPoint control panel and check your settings for the
specific program.
Every button and the scroll wheel is configurable for any keystroke or
operation for any specific program.
Mine was default configured to spin freely in Internet Explorer but
click-to-click in Outlook, for example.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Open the SetPoint control panel and check your settings for the
specific program.
Every button and the scroll wheel is configurable for any keystroke or
operation for any specific program.
Mine was default configured to spin freely in Internet Explorer but
click-to-click in Outlook, for example.

Thanks, vortch and VanguardLH, for showing the whole world my ignorance


Of course, it was actually interesting to learn about this behavior,
which I obviously had been unaware of. Thanks.

 

[rfdjr1]

Not sure where to post this, so I'll start here. It's about a strange thing I
just noticed. I have a Logitech MXX Revolution Blue Tooth laser mouse. I
normally use Sea Monkey as a browser. It's a Mozilla thing. In twenty years if
computing, I have stayed away from Internet Explorer. I never liked it. That
being said, I've noticed that when I'm browsing in Sea Monkey, when I use the
scroll wheel on the mouse, it clicks with every turn of the wheel. Actually, it
does so in all applications where I use the wheel. However, when I use the mouse
on the few rare occasions I use Internet Explorer, there is no clicking when I
turn the wheel. It turns smoothly and silently. How can a software program
affect sounds coming from a mouse? I mean, it seems to me that the clicking as I
call it, is a mechanical thing in the mouse. How would that be disabled? I see
no settings for the mouse ti make it silent. Nothing that pops out anyway.
Thanks for any insight.

Thanks for all the replies. I see what happens now and can control it.

 

[Asger-P]

Hi Gene E. Bloch

Thanks, vortch and VanguardLH, for showing the whole world my ignorance

You were not alone, You were just the one that wrote it here.;-)


Best regards
Asger-P

 

[Drew]

Of course, it was actually interesting to learn about this behavior,
which I obviously had been unaware of. Thanks.

and who says you can't teach a old dog new tricks!!

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

and who says you can't teach a old dog new tricks!!

Who you calling an old dog?

Oh - I see - never mind

 

[Brian Gregory [UK]]

Not sure where to post this, so I'll start here. It's about a strange
thing I
just noticed. I have a Logitech MXX Revolution Blue Tooth laser mouse. I
normally use Sea Monkey as a browser. It's a Mozilla thing. In twenty
years if
computing, I have stayed away from Internet Explorer. I never liked it.
That
being said, I've noticed that when I'm browsing in Sea Monkey, when I use
the
scroll wheel on the mouse, it clicks with every turn of the wheel.
Actually, it
does so in all applications where I use the wheel. However, when I use the
mouse
on the few rare occasions I use Internet Explorer, there is no clicking
when I
turn the wheel. It turns smoothly and silently. How can a software program
affect sounds coming from a mouse? I mean, it seems to me that the
clicking as I
call it, is a mechanical thing in the mouse. How would that be disabled? I
see
no settings for the mouse ti make it silent. Nothing that pops out anyway.
Thanks for any insight.

I believe you are mistaken.
Check carefully that the clicks you heard are actually coming from the
mouse.