Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!umriscc!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!ml27192 From: ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: The Mouse -- What is its Histor Message-ID: <143500009@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 16 Oct 90 18:48:00 GMT References: <1478@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> Lines: 38 Nf-ID: #R:svin02.info.win.tue.nl:1478:uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:143500009:000:1633 Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!ml27192 Oct 16 13:48:00 1990 /* Written 2:57 pm Oct 14, 1990 by gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu in uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac.system */ /* 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 ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies/* End of text from uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac.system */