Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!antel!mike
From: mike@antel.uucp (Michael Borza)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Help with double-click recognition.
Message-ID: <1989Oct31.230557.16809@antel.uucp>
Date: 31 Oct 89 23:05:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: antel.1989Oct31.230557.16809
References: <8910191633.AA08710@dawn.crd.Ge.Com>
Reply-To: mike@antel.uucp (Michael Borza)
Organization: Antel Optronics Inc., Burlington, Ontario, Canada
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In article <8910191633.AA08710@dawn.crd.Ge.Com> stpeters@dawn.crd.ge.COM (Dick St.Peters) writes:
>>       No. Double-click is a kludge foisted on the computing world by the
>>       decision to put only one button on the Macintosh mouse.
>> Hardly!  I still haven't used a Mac but I have been a double-click fan for >6
>Agreed! [...]
>3.  As someone with a mild impairment of one hand, having a lot of
>capability available quickly using just the mouse is important.

Exactly.  This is one of the major benefits of allowing a user to configure
the environment to suit his/her requirements.  It's only logical to use
a machine to do as much work as is practical to make life simpler or
easier for users.  While I wouldn't want to quad-click my way through
life, others may.  Your particular example is most poignant.

>Dick St.Peters, GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY

mike borza.
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