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From: peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: A/UX window systems, Mac tool...( Hum Interface)
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Date: 15 Mar 88 13:17:39 GMT
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In article ... tomwest@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Tom West) writes:
>   I am afraid that the advocates of multiple button mice have made a
> beautiful theoretical case without looking at the reality of micro software.
> Having used Macs, Amigas and STs (although mostly Macs), I have found that
> in most software there is an *incredible* abuse of the general use rules for
> mice.  The second button gets used in all sorts of incredibly bizarre (and
> completely un-intuitive) ways.  I have complained to the owners of the
> respective machines and met with loud protests of the fact that it is only
> this piece of software  and that the principal still holds true.

OK. The *ST* doesn't specify what the second button is. It's not a menu
button, it's an application specific button.

Other than programs that were ports from the ST, and certain peices of
PD junk, name one program that doesn't use the menu button on the Amiga as
a menu button.

And of course every program on the Mac keeps to the user interface guidelines.
Interleaf is just one case and the principle still holds true, right?
Oh, right, Hypercard is just one case and the principle still holds true.
What, Hypercard is an Apple product?
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