Hello, does anyone know if I can use a mouse button in MSFS2024 to modify what the scroll wheel does?

I have a very basic mouse right now and was contemplating buying one with a few more buttons onboard with the idea that I would set up it up so the scroll wheel controls zoom (as it does by default), but if I pressed a button on the mouse and used the scroll wheel it would only function to operate dials and switches.  

Basically I want to set this up so when I’m rotating an autopilot switch, I don’t end up zooming in or out if the mouse cursor times out or  if the cursor moves off the dial.

I’m wondering if anyone’s got a setup like this working in MSFS2024 before I buy the new mouse.

Thanks!

Dave

I've got something similar working, just the other way around: The mouse wheel alone only controls dials and switches on the cockpit; to zoom, I need to hold the right mouse button. (I have this set up for 2020 and 2024.)

It's a bit fiddly to set up - took me a few tries to get MSFS to recognize that I wanted to use the mouse button as a modifier - but now that it's set up, it works great.

Same setup for me...right button plus wheel to zoom.

Awesome, thanks guys!

I removed Cockpit view zooms off of the mouse entirely. I use the buttons on the alpha for zooming. There's a pinkie squeeze button on the rear of the yoke handle, right under your finger.

I use that button to shift all the commands on the alpha. If I squeeze that button then all the other buttons and the hat do other things than they do if I am not simultaneously pushing in the squeeze button. 

Thus the squeeze button is my "shift" button. Just the caplock button on a typewriter changes the characters which will be typed when you hold it down while typing other buttons.

In other words I now have twice as many buttons and hats, by relegating that one squeeze button to only do shift duties, and nothing else.

Edited April 25, 20251 yr by Fielder

So the right mouse button can be a "shift" button too. It can be used to determine what the wheel and left mouse button do, or what moving the mouse in the x or y direction does.

I got my new mouse today, and assigned "cockpit interactions" increase and decrease to the button I want to use + the scroll wheel.  However, the switches still rotate with the scroll wheel alone, so I must not be setting it up properly to required both the button and the scroll wheel?  Any pointers (pardon the pun!) or could anyone share a screenshot of your control settings for this?  Thanks!

I use the wheel button to toggle Freelook or I can hold the Right button.

dd

Tangential, but does anyone know if it's possible to change the built-in accelerator when adjusting for example heading.  I have a control on my TQ that lets me select IAS/heading/altitude but it accelerates in a hard to control fashion:  starts out incrementally, then accelerates to like 5x the rate of change making it hard to control.