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From: lbl@druhi.UUCP (LocklearLB)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Slow response to the mouse left button
Message-ID: <918@druhi.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Aug-86 11:59:19 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 25 11:59:19 1986
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In article <525@vaxwaller.UUCP>, cw@vaxwaller.UUCP writes:
> 
> 	A couple of postings have mentioned programs that responded slowly
> to the mouse's left button.  My version of Degas is notorious.  When I am
> trying to quit, it ask's are you sure and has a little OK box.  I'll click
> and click on that box before it responds.  Then, when it does responds and
> puts up the regular menu, I may still be clicking furiously away and click
> on some other command by mistake.
> 	Well, I remembered reading something about keyboard sequences
> that correspond to mouse functions in the manual that came with my computer.
> ALT INSERT correspond to clicking that button.  With some experimentation
> I found that, after positioning over the OK box, if I hold those keys down
> for a second, when I let up, the program responds.
> 	I just thought I'd pass this on for anybody who has any program with
> this little glitch in it.
> Regards,
> Carl Weidling
> 
> -- 
> Cleave yourself to logodaedaly and you cleave yourself from clarity.

An easier solution to the problem is to hold the mouse button down for a second.
That way you can avoid having to take your hand off the mouse, type, and then get
the mouse again.

Barry Locklear