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From: john@aardvark.ctt.bellcore.com (John Letourneau)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: Help with double-click recognition.
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Date: 18 Oct 89 18:47:28 GMT
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In article <6564@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <1490@esquire.UUCP> yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost) writes:
>> Isn't double-click commonly accepted enough
>> that X servers should be able to reliably
>> implement it? 
>
>No. Double-click is a kludge foisted on the computing world by the
>decision to put only one button on the Macintosh mouse.
>
>Of course, the X people didn't help this situation any by their
>blind refusal to dictate policy. As a result the three mouse buttons
>don't mean anything, and you have people wanting to double-click.

Well, my $.02 as a NeWS user are like this...with a 3 button mouse, you
have 3 choices of things->standard is i)selection ii)position iii)menu.
Stan Switzer and I talked this one over and using the time element allowed us
to include i-a)stretch! i-b)inverse! Basicly what Stan hacked up was
to use the selection button to "canvas-to-top" on the border with a
"quick-click", "canvas-to-bottom" on the border with a "double-quick-click"
and "constrained/un-constrained-stretching" with "click-hold". The end
result is we don't have to call up a menu or hit a function-key to do
these things. Stan isn't ready to send this stuff out (if he ever will),
but he and I are common friendly users of each others hacks, so don't
bug him for the code!

Sorry Stan, you were slightly out of touch when I responded to this! 8-)

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