Expert: Bill DeShawn - 8/28/2008

Question
QUESTION: Hello,
I am an occasional user of AutoCad 2000 to help with re-model and cabinet building layout and dimensioning. My computer crashed and when I reloaded AC2000 the behavior of the mouse changed in one respect which I can't seem to find a menu to rectify.
When I press the scroll wheel on the  mouse to drag a drawing, the drawing moves opposite the the direction I drag  it, left becomes right and up becomes down. Turning the scroll wheel zooms normally in and out. I am using a logitech intellimouse.
Any ideas? It is driving me X!@##XX%%%&#
Thanks

ANSWER: Bob:
Did you set MBUTTONPAN to 1?

Let me know if that helps or not.  If not, we'll talk about other possibilities.

Bill DeShawn
http://my.sterling.net/~bdeshawn


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QUESTION: Where is the access to the MBUTTONPAN settings. I looked around and have not found it. I am a fairly new user.
Thanks
Bob

ANSWER: You can set it from the command line

Just type
MBUTTONPAN
and then
1
or
SETVAR
MBUTTONPAN
1

or
(setvar "MBUTTONPAN" 1)

That's strange.  I alway thought that Intellimouse was a Microsoft product.

Keep in touch
Bill DeShawn
http://my.sterling.net/~bdeshawn


---------- FOLLOW-UP ----------

QUESTION: Thanks for the response. I tried both methods you recommended
(
MBUTTONPAN
and then
1
or
SETVAR
MBUTTONPAN
1)
Neither worked. I also tried using different settings on my logitech MX 310 mouse setup software ( sorry it's only a generic "intellimouse", but it has 4 buttons, a thumbwheel, and a click switch behind the thumbwheel.
Before I reinstalled my system software, the mouse  used to work normally.
Many thanks,
Bob

Answer
paste the following line including the parenthesis to the command line.
(setvar "mbuttonpan" 1)

The next thing you should see is the number 1.  That's it.

or

just type MBUTTONPAN at the command line.  Then type 1


It should look like this:

Command:
MBUTTONPAN
Enter new value for MBUTTONPAN <0>: 1


Here's something I just found.  Someone else with a logitech mouse says:
My Logitech Revolution middle button must be set
to "Middle Button" rather than AutoScroll for panning to work although
AutoScroll worked on my older Logitech meeces.

Give that a shot and see if that helps.

Keep trying.

Bill DeShawn
http://my.sterling.net/~bdeshawn