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From: jwhitnel@csi.UUCP (Jerry Whitnell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 1 vs 3 button mice issue
Message-ID: <1445@csib.csi.UUCP>
Date: 10 Mar 88 17:52:23 GMT
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Organization: Communications Solutions Inc., San Jose, Ca
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In article <4737@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU> borton@net1.UUCP (Chris Borton) writes:
| ...
|Would it be possible to add a three-button mouse to the Mac interface?  The
|hardware would be simple enough with ADB, I believe.  The key to this would be
|defining in the semi-usual-Apple way an interface that would function like
|Color QuickDraw -- let the old stuff work like normal, and IF the new function
|is there THEN take advantage of it.

The current ROM only knows about one button.  Hence it would ignore any
other buttons on a multi-button mouse.  But it would be straight-forward
to program a CDEV to recgonize the addition buttons and translates them
into any desired function (for example, a pop-up "menu-bar" or windows
that can resize from any point on the frame).

|
|Let's think about this carefully...
|
|Chris "Johann" Borton, UC San Diego	...!sdcsvax!borton

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