Back/forward/extra mouse buttons

lmccandless · October 16, 2018, 1:32am

Trying to use the back/forward buttons on the side of my mouse, it doesn’t show up with mousePressed, key, or keyCode. Is this broken out anywhere?

jeremydouglass · October 24, 2018, 7:29pm

It depends on what your specific mouse model is and if it has system settings how its output is mapped.

On the Processing side, this is broken down in the event package:

https://github.com/processing/processing/blob/master/core/src/processing/event/

If you are on the desktop specifically then Processing uses java.awt.Event … except with P2D / P3D…

github.com

processing/processing/blob/master/core/src/processing/event/Event.java#L60-L69


/**
 * Get the platform-native event object. This might be the java.awt event
 * on the desktop, though if you're using OpenGL on the desktop it'll be a
 * NEWT event that JOGL uses. Android events are something else altogether.
 * Bottom line, use this only if you know what you're doing, and don't make
 * assumptions about the class type.
 */
public Object getNative() {
  return nativeObject;
}

…for more on that, see:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/event/package-summary.html

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