The XLR8 Point-and-Scroll control panel is simple and clean, in part because it offers limited functionality. XLR8 Point-and-Scroll… and Nothing Else - Dirt-cheap PC peripheral maker Interex has entered the USB mouse game on the Mac side with the XLR8 Point-and-Scroll mouse, a sub-$20 two-button mouse with a scroll wheel that’s available in a variety of colors. For those who prefer a more consistent user experience though, the lack of scrolling support in Sherlock and undoubtedly some other applications may eliminate Logitech’s MouseWare driver from consideration. I enjoyed the capability to scroll in two dimensions while working in FreeHand and Word this feature almost justifies a Logitech mouse and MouseWare combination by itself. This subtle nicety does behave a bit oddly in framed browser windows, where it scrolls the closest scroll bar, which might not be what you want. Scrolling is also cursor-focused, so scrolling takes place in the window beneath the cursor, which is useful for applications like Ircle that have multiple windows and floaters. Logitech makes note of this incompatibility but has yet to announce a fix.Īn added bonus is that MouseWare supports horizontal scrolling and defaults to horizontal if no vertical scrolling is available in the active window. For instance, Internet Explorer consistently responds to the scroll wheel and behaves as expected Sherlock does not. Wheel scrolling works fairly well in applications that recognize the MouseWare driver.
This is adequate for my purposes, but it simply won’t suffice for the true customization junky. Here, I want to wrap up with Logitech’s MouseWare, XLR8’s Pointer to make do with a single cadre of button definitions. In part one of this article, I talked about Contour Designs’ UniMouse and Kensington’s family of mice. Just as important as the plastics of each device, however, are the USB drivers that power them.
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