Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!fernwood!oracle!news From: jmarvin@oracle.oracle.com (John W. Marvin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Some A3000UX Questions. Message-ID: <1990Oct9.180645.23862@oracle.com> Date: 9 Oct 90 18:06:45 GMT References: <32336@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <14885@cbmvax.commodore.com> <3155@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Reply-To: jmarvin@oracle.com (John W. Marvin) Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont, CA Lines: 31 In article <3155@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod ) writes: >>> >The Mac comes with a 1-button-mouse, and people don't seem to mind. >I cannot think of an application for 3 buttons - limited imagination, >right, but do you have some suggestions what we might do with the >third button? > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Claus Brod, Am Felsenkeller 2, Things. Take. Time. >D-8772 Marktheidenfeld, West Germany (Piet Hein) >csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de >---------------------------------------------------------------------- X Windows applications. Framemaker for one uses all three buttons, in a silly way IMHO, but its the #1 X seller. Sun alwasys had a 3 button mouse (even before OpenWindows! gasp!). Left to select, Right to choose Menu Items (gee, did the Amiga guys ever use a Sun?) and middle to modify the selection. To select a block of text, click left button at the start, click middle button at the end of the block. Other X applications that use 3 buttons: Xfig, Island Draw, mwm, olwm, swm, to name a few. You go with X to get the software that already exists, not to change the standard. By the way, mwm, the Motif Window Manager, supports five button mice... ******************************************************************* * Nhoj Nivram * * email: jmarvin@oracle.com * * "Reality is a Harsh Mistress..." * *******************************************************************