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From: wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Mark Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: The Mouse -- What is its History?
Message-ID: <9038@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 11 Oct 90 18:23:18 GMT
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In article <1990Oct11.174840.21598@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
>Using modifier keys is not much better, worse, or different than having
>multiple buttons on the mouse, if done properly.  "Properly" I would define
>as pretty much what an earlier poster said:
>
>Left button, click
>Right button, shift-click


  Sorry if you got the impression that I was attacking that concept with my
earlier post.

  The person to whom I was responding had the opinion that multiple mouse
buttons should be treated differently, in a standard and explicitly separate
way by the operating system.  In fact, he was flaming what your propose.

  As it turns out, what you suggest can be done by any of the
multiple-button controllers already out there, because they allow mapping
mouse buttons to keystrokes and mouse actions, etc.  Furthermore, if I were
to purchase such a product, I'd rather have the flexibility than have a
limited product because Apple had dictated that buttons were to be used ONLY
as you describe.

  By the way, an individual wrote to confirm that in fact 3-button options
ARE available for those running X-windows on the Mac.

  So, the question remains.  If you want multiple buttons, you got 'em.  Why
is everyone complaining?

-- Mark Wilkins
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