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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: The Mouse -- What is its Histor
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Date: 14 Oct 90 19:57:00 GMT
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/* Written 5:35 pm Oct 13, 1990 by rcpieter@svin02.info.win.tue.nl in
m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac.system */ /* ---------- "Re: The Mouse --
What is its Histor" ---------- */ 

> In all articles in this thread only two existing ways of using a mouse
> have been discussed (Mac and Xerox) ....  On this side of the ocean
> however, another GUI exists on the Acorn Archimedes which incorporates
> a three button mouse.  For right hand users, the buttons are called
> (from left to right) SELECT, MENU and ADJUST.

Actually, none of the three mentioned interfaces are really different.
The only difference is where you put the "MENU" and "ADJUST" keys --
on the mouse, or on the keyboard.  I don't see that much of a difference.

	SELECT		MENU		ADJUST		Comments
Mac	mouse-1		mouse-1 +	shift+mouse-1	Pull-Down menus
			screen location

Xerox	mouse-1		mouse-1 +	mouse-2		right button 
Viewpoint		screen location			underutilized

Xerox	mouse-1		mouse-1+mouse-2	mouse-3		2 buttons suffice
XDE

Acorn	mouse-1		mouse-2		mouse-3		Many Xeroids work in
& LISPm's (I think)					Acorn / Palo Alto
& many other systems...					Labs


It would be a neat hack to add pull-down menues to the Macintosh --
just write an INIT that looks for control-click in the finder, and
then pops up a menu based on the menu bar.

Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
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