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README.md

MouseButtons

A plugin that frees up the underused mouse in X-Plane 11 and let's you bind arbitrary commands to any of your mouse buttons and/or mouse wheel.

The plugin uses the same kind of .prf preference files as X-Plane for assigning commands to mouse buttons. Whenever you load up an aircraft, the plugin will look for a preference file with the same name as the aircraft inside the plugin's directory. In other words, when you jump into the Cessna 172SP the plugin will look for a preference file "X Plane 11/Resources/plugins/MouseButtons/Cessna 172SP.prf". If it can't find an aircraft-specific .prf file, it will look for a generic mouse.prf in the same directory.

The format of an entry in the preference file is as follows:

button-to-bind modifier-keys command-to-exec

Available button identifiers are:

  • Mouse-Left
  • Mouse-Right
  • Mouse-Middle (Scroll wheel click)
  • Mouse-Forward (Thumb forward button)
  • Mouse-Backward (Thumb backward button)
  • Mouse-Wheel-Forward (Scroll wheel forward)
  • Mouse-Wheel-Backward (Scroll wheel backward)
  • Mouse-Wheel-Left (Tilt scroll wheel left)
  • Mouse-Wheel-Right (Tilt scroll wheel right)

Available modifier keys are:

  • CTRL
  • SHIFT
  • ALT
  • LMB (Left mouse button)
  • RMB (Right mouse button)
  • MMB (Scroll wheel button)
  • FMB (Thumb forward button)
  • BMB (Thumb backward button)
  • or <NONE> for no modifier key

Multiple modifier keys can be combined with +, so an entry like

Mouse-Middle   CTRL+FMB    sim/view/default_view

would only trigger if you held down both CTRL and the thumb forward button when clicking the mouse wheel button.

Example preference file

The following is an example preference file.

I
1005 Version
Mouse-Middle            <NONE>      BetterMouseYoke/ToggleYokeControl
Mouse-Forward           <NONE>      sim/engines/throttle_down
Mouse-Backward          <NONE>      sim/engines/throttle_up
Mouse-Wheel-Left        <NONE>      sim/autopilot/servos_toggle
Mouse-Wheel-Right       <NONE>      sim/view/quick_look_1
Mouse-Wheel-Forward     LMB         CycleQuickLooks/Forward
Mouse-Wheel-Backward    LMB         CycleQuickLooks/Backward

Download

You can get the latest version here.

Installation

Simply extract the .zip archive into the plugins directory of your X Plane 11 installation, e.g. X Plane 11\Resources\plugins.