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From: izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa)
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Subject: Mouse chattering
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Date: 6 Jun 90 20:10:47 GMT
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Our mice on the cubes started to act strangely.
And I am pretty sure I am not alone with this problem.

Single clicks often turn into double and quadraple clicks,
probably because of chatterings in the switch contacts.
This causes nasty duplicate launches of programs done wia Browser
window, and unwanted multiple presses of buttons.

I am sure this can be prevented via software, though maybe not
in the current release (1.0 or 1.0a).

All that is needed is to force multple clicks coming in with
separations of, say, 50 msec or less into a single click.
Preferences app has a setting for the upper limit of click separations
for double clicks, but not the lower limit.

Is such a fix in release 1.0a?
(By the way, is there a file which lists all the files updated
 from 1.0?  I just want to replace only those files which are
 changed to avoid doing a full rebuild of the hard disk.)

If not, is there a way to fix this problem easily before 2.0
software release?

For now, I am using the other button on the mouse.
May be that is why Steve put two buttons that act identically by
default? :-<.

Izumi Ohzawa, izumi@violet.berkeley.edu