Surface Pro 3 Pen Button Customization

I can confirm this. The radial menu allows you to customize each application you're in. In other words, each application you open will have it's own uniquely customizable radial menu and will change depending on the currently active application. If you're in Chrome you may have a back,forward, bookmark option, etc. In word, it could be undo, redo, bold, italicize, etc. 

HOWEVER, the remapping of the surface size buttons seems limited to only a GLOBAL view. Meaning that it is NOT customizable per application (yet) and will perform the same no matter where you are. The ONLY options that this will allow for is remapping the two side buttons (eraser and right click buttons) to these three options.

-right click

-middle click

-radial menu (pops up the radial menu when you hold down the button and touch the screen)

This is good for the application but very limited for any other purposes. One of the SP3's buttons already IS a right click, making this a silly choice to remap, the radial menu could be useful assuming you want to use that application. The middle click is not necessarily useful, but could have interesting functionality. For instance, if you're an Autohotkey user I think you could set up a script to do something like...

...

IF you're in (specific application)

    AND you hit the "middle click" button

    THEN (using autohotkey) remap middle click to keypress of your choice

ELSE 

     just perform normal middle click

This autohotkey concept is just speculation, and I have no need to try it out, but so long as the radial menu truly remaps it to a recognizable middle click, then there shouldn't be any reason why you couldn't remap it. Recognize, however, that you only have ONE programmable button since Autohotkey doesn't have access to the radial menu and therefore can't detect it's triggering, and while the middle click may be able to be remapped, in virtually every application you need to use the right click at some point, making it something you wouldn't want to remap.

Just sptiballing here, but yes, you can remap the two side buttons to middle click.

-Mike

Can someone who has a SP3 actually confirm if this radial menu app lets you use middle-click and right-click on the stylus in an application like Maya or Mudbox? I haven't got one so I can't confirm it, but would like to buy one specifically for these apps (and Photoshop)

The middle mouse button is useful for applications like Autodesk Maya. It acts as a modifier to interactively move camera, which you typically do constantly. So that's a great option!

There are some autohotkey scripts that allow remapping of the SP3 pen buttons, as well as my Radial menu app that allows for it as well - http://radialmenu.weebly.com

This is almost true, but your application will only allow three options for the surface side buttons. Those options are mapping the buttons to either be a right click (one already is so it doesn't make sense), a middle click (could potentially be useful but what's the point?), or the radial menu (which, by the way is a fantastic piece of work. I contributed to you project because it is so awesome!). Is there any way to extend the options to provide the same level of customization options? Why not let the buttons themselves launch actions that your radial menu can do (i.e. Toggle, press, spin, swipe, macro, launch/run, open location)? That is what everyone is really looking for anyways.

Just thought I'd share this with the folks here. It is NOT a complete solution, but it does allow me to do some of the things I wanted to do.

http://surfaceproartist.com/blog/2014/10/18/radial-menu-isnt-just-for-wacom-anymore

http://radialmenu.weebly.com/features.html

-Mike