I'm a southpaw, but I can mouse with either hand...
At home, I have the mouse on the left, at work, on the right... For numerous reasons...
Occasionally, I run into situations where I need to swap mouse buttons on my home computer, when I remote connect to something set up for right-hand mouse...ing.
This script will do a quick mouse-button swap.
Though it includes all of the mechanics needed to interact with this setting, for any other scenario.
Note that:
Just changing the registry value, will work... But, you'd have to reboot.
Pushing that 'true / false' value, to the 'user32.dll' file, does the swap on-the-fly (it also changes the reg key value).
You may need to adjust that '1..10', (increase the value past '10', I mean) if the second time the 'MouseReport' runs, and the swap does not show as changed yet... It does take a second or two...
$swapButtons = Add-Type -MemberDefinition @'
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
public static extern bool SwapMouseButton(bool swap);
'@ -Name "NativeMethods" -Namespace "PInvoke" -PassThru
Function MouseReport {$script:MouseButton = $null; $script:MouseButton = (Get-ItemProperty "HKCU:\Control
Panel\Mouse").SwapMouseButtons
If ($MouseButton -eq 0) {Write-Host "
Mouse button is set for RIGHT-Handed mouse. " -ForegroundColor Red -BackgroundColor Yellow}
If ($MouseButton -eq 1) {Write-Host "
Mouse button is set for LEFT-Handed mouse. " -ForegroundColor Green -BackgroundColor Black}}
MouseReport
$Choice = @('Y','X'); Do { Write-Host " Swap?: (Y) / (X): " -NoNewline -ForegroundColor Yellow
$Swap = (Read-Host).Trim()} Until
(($Choice.Contains($Swap.ToUpper()))); If ($Swap -eq "x"){break}
#
$true for Left-Handed, $false for Right-Handed.
#
Mouse is Right-Handed, change it to Left-Handed
If ($MouseButton -eq 0)
{[bool]$returnValue = $swapButtons::SwapMouseButton($true)}
# Mouse is Left-Handed, change it to Right-Handed
If ($MouseButton -eq 1)
{[bool]$returnValue = $swapButtons::SwapMouseButton($false)}
1..10 | % { #Give
the system time to respond to the above change to the "user32.dll"
change.
If ($_ -lt 10) {Write-Host "." -ForegroundColor Cyan -NoNewline};Start-Sleep -Milliseconds 200
If ($_ -ge 10) {Write-Host "." -ForegroundColor Cyan}}
MouseReport
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Very useful, thank you.
ReplyDeleteThanks! Here is a non-interactive variation that might be useful to others:
ReplyDelete$userdll = @'
[DllImport("user32.dll")]
public static extern bool SwapMouseButton(bool swap);
'@
$swapButtons = Add-Type -MemberDefinition $userdll -Name "NativeMethods" -Namespace "PInvoke" -PassThru
$rightButtonIsAlreadyPrimary = $swapButtons::SwapMouseButton(1)
If ($rightButtonIsAlreadyPrimary -eq 1) {$swapButtons::SwapMouseButton(0)}
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