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From: tjw9202@ritcv.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mouse Problems
Keywords: In Finder 6.0...
Message-ID: <200@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 88 21:33:15 GMT
References: <643@wolf.UUCP> <41598@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: tjw9202@ritcv.UUCP (Tim Wilson)
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Lines: 23
Posted: Thu Feb 11 16:33:15 1988

In article <41598@sun.uucp> ereid@sun.UUCP (Eric Reid) writes:
>In article <643@wolf.UUCP> drew@wolf.UUCP (Drew Dean) writes:
>> [....]
>>		Sometimes, in Finder 6.0, for no appearant reason, I cannot
>>		double-click on anything !  Single clicks work fine to select
>>		a {folder, document, program}, but it won't open with a double-
>>		click.  The Open command in the File menu or Cmd-O works.
>>Restarting the Mac solves the problem.
>>
>I, too, have had this sort of problem. Hardware configuration exactly
>the same, running both the latest finder and the previous version.
>Happens a lot after I play the "1000 miles" game, in which there is
>a lot of double-clicking on items.

I believe that some applications change the event mask to inhibit mouse up
events and then do not reset the event mask to everyEvent.  The Finder does
not seem to do this when it starts up so things like double clicks cease
to function.

I guess I could try to write a little test program to see if this is really
the problem ......:-).

Tim Wilson