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From: mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: 1 vs 3 button mice issue
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Date: 11 Mar 88 22:53:22 GMT
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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.

You don't even need to create a new user interface; just add two more
buttons and a driver that translates middle-click to shift-click, and
left-click to option-click.  Viola!  No more two-handed mousing!
Works in every application!  I love it.  Now if I just had one...


Brian McElhinney
mce@tc.fluke.com