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From: macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Bug on si? (apparent mouse-up loss problem)
Message-ID: <83863@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 26 Jan 91 22:16:16 GMT
References: <1892@blackbird.afit.af.mil> <3830@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> <1991Jan25.173951.31031@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1991Jan25.192910.10529@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Dennis H Lippert)
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In article <1991Jan25.192910.10529@watdragon.waterloo.edu> pmbergland@violet.uwaterloo.ca (Per Bergland) writes:
>Just got my si, and I must say that I'm pleased getting the real 
>heavy ball in the mouse instead of the ill-reputated lightweight one.
>
>I have the same problem with the mouse button sticking, but I think
>it only happens in control manager devices (buttons, scrollbar arrrows etc.).

Wrong!  I was playing with our scanner station here in the lab today and I had
my first button stick on the SI (heavy-ball, "better" (even though I was one 
of the more vocal complainers about the light "worse") mouse).  It was when 
I was clicking on a menu... I decided not to do what I was gonna do, so I just
moved the mouse back up to the menu bar, let go of the button, and lo and 
behold... the menu stayed there!  Confused the heck out of the other user-
consultant here!  But the scary part is... the menu staying on when you let
go of the button has real shades of a PC-like quality to it... yuck!

So, it appears that you *can't get* a good mouse from Apple these days... 
it'll either jump all over the place, or play dead :-).

Dennis Lippert - macman@unix.cis.pitt.edu