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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mouse buttons (and Boing! Mouse.)
Summary: The mouse pad does NOT work in portrait mode
Message-ID: <310@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 7 Jul 89 04:57:00 GMT
References: <8907031413.AA11261@jade.berkeley.edu> <1713@ucqais.uc.edu> <7593@cs.Buffalo.EDU> <7213@cbmvax.UUCP> <446@gtss.gatech.edu>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Field Service Co, San Jose CA
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In article <446@gtss.gatech.edu> chas@gtss.gatech.edu (Charles Cleveland) writes:
>In article <7213@cbmvax.UUCP> unland@cbmvax.UUCP (Rick Unland - Regional Support) writes:
<)              ....  Teh one thing that some people find is that the first time
<)they go to an opticle mouse is that it has to be kept perpendicular to the pad
<)at all times or the results will be disconcerting.
<  ...
<An optical mouse does not have to be kept perpendicular to the pad.  But to
<move to the right you must move the mouse to the right (as a whole, rotations
<don't count) with respect to the pad.
<
<Is this quite clear now?  Or shall I go on.
<
<I thought not.

But the mouse does have to be oriented properly or it does not work.
If you rotate the optical mouse pad 90 degrees with respect to the Sun
mouse, you will find that the pointer does not move properly in all
directions.  It will move horizontally but not vertically (or maybe the
other way around).  That can be quite disconcerting - it makes your nice
new optical mouse act like it's half broken.
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