Mouse button 4 and 5

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Hi!

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There’s devices with mouse button 4 and 5 out there. Often the forward and back button.

Back when we were vstgui based I could get access to these, but when we ported to JUCE I lost it, since mouse event only has main left right button.

Is there any way in JUCE currently (without forking obviously) to get access to those events? Thanks!

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Sadly JUCE doesn’t support the additional buttons.

For example on Win32, you’d go here to get the proper commands: Responding to Mouse Clicks - Win32 apps | Microsoft Learn . In other words, I think you’d have to add MK_XBUTTON1 and MK_XBUTTON2 to the input process in the native Windows code in JUCE…

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Support for mouse buttons 4+5 is now available on the develop branch. Please try it out and let us know if you run into any problems.

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