how is multi-button "gamer" mouse handled in Windows programs? [closed]

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e.g. this mouse http://www.logitech.com/mice-pointers/mice/devices/5750 has a bunch of additional buttons other than the usual two or three. Does its driver convert the button clicks into keyboard keypress events? Or how do Windows apps respond to it?

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I have a G5 and it came with a driver disk that allows you to map the extra buttons to your needs, or even map them differently for each game. By default, the forward and back buttons are recognized by most browsers in Windows XP and newer as forward and back buttons when browsing. The + and - buttons are for mouse speed, which you can't change. The rest is up to you to map.