Using PT 5.3.1 with Quickeys and Kensington Expert Mouse Pro

[Siegfried Meier]

Hi,

I'm having a hell of a time using these items together on a PC. Every time I perform a Quickeys shortcut, I lose functionality of my Kensignton buttons (which zoom in and out) until I click on another open program, and then click back into ProTools. It somehow forgets that I'm back in ProTools. Also, I can't seem to perform any dropdown list shortcuts in Quickeys. We use this combination on a Mac every day and it works flawlessy, but not on the PC. Any ideas? Thanks.

Best regards,
Siegfried Meier

[Rail Jon Rogut]

I don't know if the Kensington is happy on the PC.. I couldn't find any software at Kensington for the PC.

Rail

[Siegfried Meier]

Look harder my friend. There's software for both WinXP and Win98. We are talking about the Kensington Expert Mouse Pro, right?

Siegfried Meier

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Well.. you are correct.. don't know where I was looking before.. however, the downloads page there says:

Requirements:
Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000 or Windows XP.

Description:
A self-extracting archive of the full version of Kensington MouseWorks 6.0 software.

Notes:
This software supports all of Kensington family of input devices with the exception of the following:

• Kensington Orbit Elite and Orbit 3D

• Kensington Serial Input Devices

• Kensington WebRacer - PS/2 and Serial

• Kensington ValuMouse series input devices

• Kensington Mouse-in-a-Box Scroll (PS2-Serial - Model #MOSUI)

• Kensington Mouse-in-a-Box Model 64211

• Kensington Expert Mouse versions 1 through 3

Which one do you have? They also have a newer beta release which may fix your problems.

Rail

[Siegfried Meier]

Expert Mouse Pro. I've tried the latest driver as well as the Beta driver. I think the problem lies not with the mouse, but rather a problem with Quickeys and ProTools on the PC. PT for PC somehow doesn't conform to Windows standards-just look how the Windows key is assigned in PT. Can anyone from Digidesign confirm this? Thanks.

Siegfried Meier