Disable scrolling in certain apps. Magic Mouse?

Is there any way to disable scrolling only on certain application on a Magic Mouse. I love the mouse and my beautiful i5 27" iMac. The trouble is I work with Adobe InDesign all the time and I am constantly accidentally scrolling the pages. I hate this but I love the scrolling on the web and in Photoshop. If there is any way I could keep it from scrolling in InDesign only that would be awesome!!! Thanks for you suggestions!

I have this exact same request.
The scrolling on Magic Mouse is great for applications developed by Apple. I use Aquamacs and find scrolling to be truly horrible with Magic Mouse.
I've added an entry to the Wish List page for Aquamacs. Maybe you can submit a bug report or feature request to the developers of EyeTV? Do they release updates and bugfixes on a regular basis?
Maybe you can control system settings with something like QuicKeys, Automator, or ActionScript.

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Disabling Horizontal Scroll in Mountain Lion (Magic Mouse)?

So I've tried pretty much everything and can't seem to this.
The following things used to work under Lion and before, it seems but having tried all of them, I'm at a loss for what to do. I like the magic mouse, but
when doing any development like coding or doing something in illustrator or Photoshop. The horizontal scroll makes my content jump all over the place.
Very frustrated hope someone can help. Here are all the things I've tried.
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I tried installing BetterTouchTool (BTT) to also overwrite the scroll functionality for horizontal movement... again it doesn't work.
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Ra1n
Re: how to disable horizontal scrolling with magic mouse in win7?
Mar 19, 2013 8:30 AM (in response to lexa_xxx)
I use MagicMouse on iMac with Windows 7 running (installed through BootCamp). Got sick of annoying horizontal scrolling. The solution described above has helped me to disable it. Here is what I've done in steps:
1) go to http://www.autohotkey.com/ and download an app (a script editor).
2) Install and run the program - please note that it will not open as it runs in the background
3) Rightclick on the desktop -> choose "New" -> "AutoHotkey Script" (a new script file will be created on the desktop) -> name it as you wish (e.g. "Mouse_HScroll")
4) Rightclick on the file you've just created and choose "Edit Script" from the menu.
5) Add these three lines below existing text in the file:
WheelLeft::return
WheelRight::return
#MaxHotkeysPerInterval 5000
6) Save file
7) Run "Convert .ahk to .exe" program from the package installed earlier and browse the file you've just created, hit ">Convert<" -> .exe file should be created. Run this file -> the scrolling should be disabled now.
7) You may wish to move this file to Start/"Autorun" folder, so it would be launched automatically each time you reboot your Mac/PC.
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3) Disable power management for Bluetooth Radio. Open device manager, open Bluetooth Radios and right click on "Apple Bluetooth". Select the "Power Management". Uncheck "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power".
4) Reboot computer. Mouse should be working in Windows 7/Vista now.
* If you reboot and your mouse is still not working, click on the mouse two or three times. On my system, the mouse will not begin working until I do this, every time I boot my system. *
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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL952
then download this package
and extract the AppleWirelessMouse.exe or AppleWirelessMouse64.exe
you then can run this on your windows PC and execute this
this enables scrolling functionality of the Magic Mouse
do not execute the downloaded file directly because it will tell you it doesn't run on this computer ( which is logical because of pc hardware =/= Mac hardware )
i hope it works for everybody
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