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From: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Some A3000UX Questions.
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Date: 11 Oct 90 00:37:41 GMT
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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?

Button 1: twiddle gadgets on screen
       2: menu selections for system user interface
       3: selections for active application

or ...

1. start highlight
2. end highlight (I've seen this on a Sun).
3. menus

Along these lines, button 1 could select some icon, and 2 could say
where it should go.  This operation could easily replace the more
usual click, drag, unclick operation, and would be compatible with it,
thus leaving existing 2-button mice operational.

             Dan Zerkle  zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu  (916) 754-0240
           Amiga...  Because life is too short for boring computers.