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From: iho@cac.washington.edu (Il Oh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: STacy review in EM
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Date: 6 Feb 91 20:04:59 GMT
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mspacek@fquest.fidonet.org (Mark Spacek) writes:

>moved the mouse between clicks (many times) and it worked fine.  If 
>someone can use a Mac mouse fine and not the Atari mouse then I would 
>wonder if its because of the different style of clicking.  Unless I'm 
>wrong, I think that a Mac mouse looks for the time lapse between the 
>upbeat of the first click and the downbeat of the second click to sense a 
>double click.  In other words, you could press the button, hold it a 
>while, release it and click again.  That would work.  But on the Atari 
>ST, it measures between the two downbeats and that would not work.  I 
>just can't believe that anyone who could double-click on a Mac mouse 
>couldn't also do it on an ST mouse with the click response time set slow 
>enough for them.  Now, they might not LIKE it cause it doesn't work quite 
>the same as the Mac, but I can't believe that they couldn't do it.  Maybe 
>so, but I just can't see it...

I was merely posting an observation, not offering technical explanations.
What I said about not moving the mouse between clicks was also an
observation.  However, it IS a fact that it's much easier to double
click on a Mac than on a ST.  I use one at work and the other at home.

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