Leo, thanks very much for responding -
I did send an emails to your .tk address from my gmail address [ dh ].
I know it's not the best idea to try & bind the "draw" button --
the best alternative I can think of, and that I've tried to code,
is to use < press & hold both the L & R buttons >
then bind this to Actual Window Mgr hotkey combo ---
the AWM choices are to use either <Shift or Ctrl or Alt or Win> + either <L or Middle or R> button.
In my web searches, I've found some people who actually prefer to use the mouse
to draw this way in some apps - by pressing both mouse buttons -
seems to steady their hand better.
This "hand-grab-drag-scroll" functionality seems to be natively present in browser windows,
as well as in Adobe Acrobat - so why the heck is it so difficult to code this into such an
apparently stupid-simple application as MS Paint???
The AWM people have been able to code it into their application -
I've emailed them to ask Help with my modification request,
but have received no respone yet in a week.
I just think that a relatively simple AHK script should work --
and no one responds over at the AHK forum despite courteous, clear requests for HELP !!!!!!
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#IfWinActive, ahk_class MSPaintApp
~LButton & RButton::Send !{Click Down}
#IfWinActive
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-------- back to your suggestion -- the referenced post doesn't work for my intentions.
I need the granularity of being able to horizontal scroll especially -
but no autoscrolling in the sense of acceleration and click to start/click to stop.
How the heck have the AWM people coded it?
It's near-perfect --
I press Alt + LButton --- I can minutely scroll any direction --- when I release those 2 keys,
the script Stops !!! --- perfect !!
plus, it doesn't break any of the other multiple scripts/apps that I have running --
it's probably amazing that all my stuff works together -
AHK + STrokeIt + KatMouse + AWM !!! --
and all of this is bound to a 9-button Logitech G300 mouse !!!
maybe I should just accept it & shutup,
except that -- as I bet you've probably felt somewhere along the way --
it's the challenge & the certainty that "somehow, this is possible to do!" --