Is rebinding mouse buttons bannable?

[Allaina-anachronos]

I started using X-Mouse recently to play the new Planet Zoo beta, because that game requires a mouse scroll wheel to zoom in/out (well, you can use keyboard buttons but it’s a lot more clunky!) and I use a Logitech Trackman Marble mouse, which doesn’t have a scroll wheel. I rebound my mouse’s Mouse-4 and Mouse-5 buttons so that they would function as a scroll wheel, so I could zoom in and out on Planet Zoo. However, I don’t need this function on any other game, so I normally turn X-Mouse completely off once I’m done playing.

Tonight, I was playing Planet Zoo and decided to switch over to World of Warcraft, and I realised that I still had X-Mouse open (because when I tried to press Mouse-5, which is bound to flight form on my druid, it didn’t work!) and I closed it immediately. However, then I got worried, because I remembered that there are people out there who’ve said they’ve been banned for using AutoHotKey, which is a vaguely similar program (though not mouse-specific), and I was wondering: should I be at all worried that I had X-Mouse open for that brief time?

I understand that this is no doubt a silly question, and I know about the 1:1 rule (i.e. if you do rebind buttons using an external program, as long as that program doesn’t simulate multiple inputs using only one key press, it’s okay) but I also know that Blizzard’s detection systems can sometimes flag up the programs that permit key macros to be made. I don’t even know if X-Mouse has this capability, but since it offers the sort of rebinding function that AHK can as well, I’m terribly worried that it’ll be considered a taboo program. Also, would the fact that my buttons were bound to a scroll wheel (which functions as a continuous “key press” rather than a single one) affect anything at all?

Thank you so very much in advance!!

[Lunaeria-argent-dawn]

Whoops, I meant to post this under my main character (this one!). Not sure if I can retroactively change it now, I haven’t used the forum’s new format very much. My bad!!

[Dottie-thunderhorn (Dottie)]

I don’t think Blizzard will say what programs are allowed and which aren’t but the one press, one action rule is more important I think.

[Steamedhams-frostmane]

This is from a blue post (CS) in another thread

Really the safest advice I can offer you here is that iif you can’t do it with an in-game macro, don’t do it.

As said the important thing to keep in mind that it should be one keypress equals one action and any external macro should not be able to do anything more than what an in-game macro can do.

So essentially, as long as it can do what an in game macro can do (which is quite a lot when you get into the nitty-gritty), then you should be safe.
People who got banned for using AHK were probably setting up macros to automate gameplay, which is definitely not allowed.