Magic Mouse Middle button option for Blender/DaVinci Resolve

[John2]

I have purchased the app to facilitate using a magic mouse with my iMac for both Blender and DaVinci Resolve. These applications require a middle mouse button for some operations which the magic mouse does not have. I have looked at the tutorial video's but cannot find instructions to configure my magic mouse for these applications. The default options only show various 'delete' options.
How do I configure my magic mouse using this application?

[digisam]

Emulate a real middle click (including dragging) with the trackpad. E.g. for CAD programs.

Description of what you are sharing This allows you to do a trackpad three finger click to perform a middle-mouse-down click. It will keep the middle mouse button pressed as long as you are still touching the trackpad with at least one finger. This allows you to move the cursor and thereby simulate a real middle-mouse click as needed for e.g. CAD programs like Archicad. NOTE: This requires BTT 2.506 alpha or later to be imported correctly The example is available here: Screenshots (optional…

in my experience you're better off setting a key to hold down to trigger it

[TheBloke]

Yeah I use keyboard shortcuts to add MMB (and also an alternative LMB) for use with my Magic Trackpad 2:

This is a slightly more advanced assignment, using three triggers+actions in a group, so I'll break it down:

Trigger/Action 1:

Option + Cmd + F3 = sends F3. This allows me to still use the key F3 if I need it in any app.

Trigger/Action 2:

In the Trigger section, this has the following special config:

And in the Action:

So when F3 is tapped / held down, it sends Middle Mouse Button down.

Trigger/Action 3:

With this in the Trigger section:

And this in Action:

Same principle; when F3 is released (key up), it sends Middle Mouse Button Up (releases the MMB press)

The combination of these three actions is that tapping F3 will send a single MMB click, holding F3 will hold MMB, and if I actually need the real F3 I can access that with Option+Cmd+F3.

Of course you could use any other key in place of F3.

I added this MMB specifically for DaVinci Resolve, when I learned that MMB is used to copy Fusion compositions between clips. That's literally the only place I've ever needed MMB. I don't need it for any kind of viewer panning/zooming, as I can do that with Option + two fingers swipe left/right/up/down in both Resolve and Fusion viewers. That same gesture should work on the Magic Mouse.

If you really wanted a mouse gesture for MMB click you could assign something like three-finger-tap or something (assuming the Magic Mouse supports that?), but I don't know if that would work for a MMB-drag if you need that. As mentioned, I don't need a MMB drag for Resolve. I don't use Blender.