Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!crdgw1.ge.com!barnett From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Double clicks Message-ID: <3495@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 23 Oct 89 14:29:20 GMT References: <101989.155135.dan@watson.ibm.com> Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) Followup-To: comp.windows.x Organization: GE Corp. R & D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 34 In-reply-to: montnaro@sprite.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) In article , montnaro@sprite (Skip Montanaro) writes: > If you're going to get >into multi-button mice in a big way (> 4 or 5 keys, chording, multi-clicks, >...), you absolutely have to have standards, One standard is to NOT define them, and let the user have them available as a means of extending his/her personal interface. Example: Microsoft Word 4.0 for the Mac allows the user to add key and menu accelerators. Great Idea! Another interesting idea is to have a macro facility in (or above) the window manager that allows you to define Shift-Meta-Double-Click-MiddleMouse to mean a particular operation. The Mac has a standard utility that can be used to map keystrokes into mouse actions. There are global macros that work for all programs, and per-application macros. This allows you to map an a single action to several applications, even if they use different conventions. >As an aside, my boys (six & seven) often triple- or quadruple-click when >launching applications on the Mac. Very true. Also - when my son uses HyperCard, he double-clicks when a single click will work. This shows the problem with using double-clicks in a non-intuitive manner. IMHO If multiple-clicks were to become a standard, it should be used for accelerators, unnecessary to know about but useful if available. -- Bruce G. Barnett uunet!crdgw1!barnett