Bizarre mouse behavior with FrameMaker

[Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain@aeris.net)]

I am not particularly familiar with the Mac, so these would be real SWAGs:

1. Is it a wireless mouse? And, if so, have you tried changing its batteries? I have seen occasional misbehavior with my wireless mouse when the batteries are low.

2. Does the middle scroll wheel also have a push-button click capability (like mine does)? Or a "sideways" tilt click? And, if so, is the /software driver set to do an insert when you "click" the center button? An accidental click (sometimes very soft and undetectable with some mice - or old ones) when scrolling is possible.

Z

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 4:49 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Bizarre mouse behavior with FrameMaker

I'm sounding this out here just in case anyone's ever seen anything similar.

FrameMaker 7, Mac, mouse under control of USB Overdrive.

I have long - years - had FrameMaker set up such that the mouse wheel scrolls forward/back a page at a time, without problems. The control codes for this in FrameMaker 7 for Mac are command-[ and command-]. The benefit of using these control codes rather than 'page up' and 'page down' is that they also work in dialogs, such as the Paragraph Designer.

The problem I'm seeing may be a USB OVerdrive issue and therefore outside the remit of this group, but what's happening is that, only *very* occasionally, for a scroll page down, I get the current contents of the paste buffer followed by the ']' inserted into the text. Which is of course highly undesirable, especially if you don't notice it.

This only happens very occasionally, so I can't pin down the exact circumstances.

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Steve