Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!apple!netcom!ergo From: ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: the Trackman botch (Re: Left Handed programmers) Message-ID: <12690@netcom.UUCP> Date: 27 Aug 90 18:04:12 GMT References: <10401@stiatl.UUCP> <1990Aug16.080332.1572@ste.dyn.bae.co.uk> <1488@chinacat.Unicom.COM> <1990Aug21.001217.28123@ico.isc.com> <596@wattres.UUCP> Reply-To: ergo@netcom.uucp Organization: UESPA Lines: 41 In <596@wattres.UUCP> steve@wattres.UUCP (Steve Watt) writes: > The new FasTrac (I think) by MicroSpeed is *very* well laid out for doing >drags, using index fingers, and using either hand! The layout looks something >like this: > llllll dddddddd rrrrrr d,^ = drag/lock button > lllll d^^^^^^d rrrrr l = left button > llll bbbbbb rrrr r = right button > lll bbbbbbbbbb rrr b = trackball > lll bbbbbbbbbb rrr > llll bbbbbb rrrr If you press the drag/lock button, then > lllllll rrrrrrr one of the left or right buttons, that > lllllllllllrrrrrrrrrrr button is effectively held down until > any button is clicked. After that, >pushing the drag/lock button is the same as holding down whichever button you >last activated it with. The problem with *that* approach is that you only get two buttons. But I suppose that's enought for most people. Microspeed also makes the FastTRAP (the model Steve describes is called the PC-Trac) which has three buttons, and also a "z-axis" wheel, handy for CAD stuff. But FastTRAP has a old-fashioned boxlike case, unlike the PC-Trac's curved fit-in-you-palm design. >It works *very* well! (They also have an Amiga version, which I am using!) >No, I don't work for them, just a satisfied customer. >-- >Steve Watt >...!claris!wattres!steve wattres!steve@claris.com also works >Don't let your schooling get in the way of your education. -- ergo@netcom.uucp Isaac Rabinovitch atina!pyramid!apple!netcom!ergo Silicon Valley, CA uunet!mimsy!ames!claris!netcom!ergo Disclaimer: I am what I am, and that's all what I am!