72981 - support back/forward using extra buttons on 5 button mouse

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 30431

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

Many people nowadays have 5 button mice - which essentially have two extra
buttons on the left and right of the mouse.  IE uses these buttons for the back
and forward commands in the browser.  As long as I've had my 5-button mouse I've
wanted badly to have this same support in mozilla, as it is pretty darn handy.

I told myself that if I could implement this feature tonight before I went home,
I'd do it.  Otherwise, I'd give up.  Fortunately it turned out to be pretty
easy.  Forthcoming patch is for windows only.  Not sure what it would take to do
this on other platforms.

Since I am 100% new to every c++ file I edited tonight, I'd advise that
reviewers take a good look at the patch and make sure I didn't forget anything
or do something stupid.

Comment 1

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

shoulda assigned it to me in the first place, sorry

Comment 2

[R.K.Aa.]

Related: Bug 30431 (with an ever-growing swarm of dups)

Comment 3

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

After talking to Ben Goodger a bit I discovered that there are some cases where
back/forward are hooked up to the extra buttons.  If you have the Microsoft
intellipoint drivers running, and you happen to have an app included with the
driver up and running, they will send the combination "Alt-Left" and "Alt-Right"
to applications when you click the 4th and 5th buttons.  

However, this isn't something we can really count on, as it's been pretty flaky
for me.  My patch enables true support for the buttons by firing
mouseup/mousedown events for the 4th and 5th buttons and setting the
event.button property to 3 or 4.  

Comment 4

[Joe Hewitt (gone)]

Whoops, silly me should have queried bugzilla before I filed this one.  Marking dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30431 ***

Comment 5

[James Green]

Something's wrong somewhere in verifying.