Binding extra mouse buttons

I've been thinking about this for awhile but never gotten around to asking about it.

I got a mouse with extra buttons for back/forward and I was wondering if there was a way to set them to something in the settings. I'd really like to use them as a ctrl and shift replacement so I don't have to contort my hand so much to set camera anchors/control groups etc.

some mice have software that allows you to bind your extra mouse buttons to specific keybindings (so pressing that button would be equivalent to pressing the keybinding). I think that's the only way I know how you would do it...

well, I have a microsoft mouse and it looks like they do have extra software for that, will check it out

well, the software works, just not for PA...

that's weird. How does it work? my logitech mouse for example binds keys like shift to a mousekey, so I can write CAPITAL letters by holding a mousebutton. That kind of binding looks like "shift was pressed" to the whole system.

It's Microsoft's Intellipoint software, no idea how it works but I can do application specific binding for notepad++ to set the back button to shift, and it works as expected (if a bit weird). It doesn't work at all when I do the same for PA though.

I'll see if I can't find third party software and try it out, might work better.

The binding I am talking about is not application specific, but rather a global "consider that mouse button as if it were that keyboard button" kind of thing. That definitely works.

ya, when it is just global it does work as expected. This however is annoying as I like having the default functionality for everything but PA

oic, I never use those extra mouse buttons outside of games.

ya, it doesn't take long to change it so I might just manually do it when playing PA

I think the software does something special when program specific bindings are enabled, because even if I have the defaults as i want for PA and program specific for chrome/explorer where I normally use back/forward, it doesn't work for PA. As soon as i disable it, it works fine again.

stupid microsoft...