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Re: Button (etc.) events [message #3710 is a reply to message #3683]

Fri, 03 March 1995 15:29

patterso
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Registered: February 1995

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William Thompson (thompson@orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov) wrote:
: sterner@strdev.jhuapl.edu (Ray Sterner) writes:

: This shouldn't be a problem with PCs. One can emulate the middle button by
: pressing the left and right button simultaneously. We already have software
: that uses three mouse buttons in graphics windows, so there shouldn't be any
: complaint about extending that concept to widgets.

: Can one buy a multi-button mouse for a Mac? Even if not, there ought to be a
: way to emulate a three-button mouse through pull-down menus. If MacOS doesn't
: provide this capability, then IDL could provide it itself. As stated before,
: this capability is needed for other IDL software.

: Bill Thompson

Couldn't we just use the "apple" buttons to have mouse button, MB+left apple,
MB+right apple - that gives 3 buttons. Could extend this even further :)
My Sun keyboard would give me about 150 button choices :)

Tim

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		Re: Button (etc.) events By: thompson on Fri, 03 March 1995 10:35
		Re: Button (etc.) events By: thompson on Fri, 03 March 1995 10:27
		Re: Button (etc.) events By: sterner on Tue, 28 February 1995 09:10
		Re: Button (etc.) events By: patterso on Fri, 03 March 1995 15:29

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