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From: ali@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Programming Question
Message-ID: <728@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 10:20:24 EST
Article-I.D.: rocky.728
Posted: Thu Nov  5 10:20:24 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Nov-87 02:46:13 EST
References: <1989@gryphon.CTS.COM> <2687@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ali@rocky.stanford.edu (Ali Ozer)
Organization: Stanford University Computer Science Department
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Keywords: mice

In article <2687@cbmvax.UUCP> andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes:
>(there are keyboard equivalents for other mouse functions; no one
>said they were fun though; either Amiga key and the cursor keys
>control the mouse movements; either Amiga key and the left Alt is
>the left mouse buttom; either Amiga key and the right Alt key
>is the right mouse button.)

Those mouse equivalents are useful, though... This summer when I was back
in Europe I wanted to show my parents the Amiga. So I took them to various 
department stores in Trier, Germany, most of which had 500s. But (it must be
a way of discouraging people from playing with the machine without salesperson
assistance) none of the machines had mice attached. So, I had to remember 
those key codes, and pretty soon I was able to start opening windows and
clicking on icons. And after 10 minutes it felt totally normal --- I could 
even choose subitems from menus!.  Of course a few minutes later (just when 
things were getting fun) a salesperson materalized with a mouse (and wanted a
copy of Juggler, which I was running at that instant).

Oh, and if you hit shift while moving the mouse, the mouse will move in
steps of about an inch(?) or so, which turns out to be useful, especially
if you've got your mouse speed set too high (in which case the pointer
accelerates across the screen like mad if you hold it down too long).

Ali Ozer, ali@rocky.stanford.edu