I have been using a great free program for some time now that allows me to do all sorts of things in games with my mouse called "X-Mouse Button Control" It works especially well for older games that may or may not support things like Mouse Wheels or Middle and Side Mouse buttons

Off the top of me head, I currently have Dungeon Keeper set up to use mouse wheel up as zoom in, mouse wheel down as zoom out, my 2 additional side buttons as rotate left and rotate right. In The Witcher, I have it set up so that when I mouse wheel up or down it switches my fighting style and my top side button pauses and my bottom side button opens and closes my inventory.

One of the great things about this software is that it auto detects when you launch a game that you have a profile set up for and loads it automatically. It will also allow you to configure things like when the commands are sent such as "During button press" or "Upon button release".

You can also do some very advanced configurations thanks to the layer system. For example, You could have a button be a different key each time you press it. This is what I did for The Witcher combat style switch via wheel config.

If you decide to give this software a try, I hope you find it as useful as I have.

This sounds awesome for Dungeon Keeper. I'm definitely going to try this.

Cool! A couple of tips for your setup. The selection you are looking for with each button drop down is called "Simulated Key Press" You will then enter the key you want sent in the blank field at the top. The keys used in DK1 for Rotate Left and Right plus Zoom In and Zoom Out are all considered "Extended Keys" so when you enter it in the field it will need to look like this {Extended Key Name}. If it was just a standard key you would not need the brackets.

Make sure that when you set up the profile you select the exe that you are going to use to start the game. If you are using the KeeperFX mod you will need to make sure you point it to the KeeperFX.exe or the profile will not load.

If you run into any issues, please PM me and I will try and assist :)

Thanks. I'll bookmark this thread to remember it, because I likely won't get to try it in the near future. Unfortunately, my graphics card appears to have given up the ghost, so I'm reduced to using my work laptop at the moment.

I'm using a Logitech V550 and can reprogram my mouse buttons for every program using logitechs own program Setpoint (that option is hidden under advanced settings). I don't know if this also works with other logitechs mices, but thanks to this I can use the horizontal scrolling in my pdf reader for zooming ;-)

Edit: Ah, I should add that it seems you can't reprogram the mouse wheel with Setpoint, so X-Mouse Button control is maybe also for logitech users an interesting tool.

Is this the one you're talking about? http://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/XMouseButtonControl.htm

Yes

Nice. +1 for the helpful suggestion

Thx!! Its a useful software.

+rep for this seems its going to be helpful for most gog'ers!

^THIS^

I can confirm that this is a great little piece of software.

Looks like something really useful, thank you.

On OS X I use ControllerMate for that sort of thing:
http://www.orderedbytes.com

Thank you all for +1's. Glad I could help. :)