Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdragon!trillium!wdcastell
From: wdcastell@trillium.waterloo.edu (David Castell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacMan and double-clicking
Summary: don't change TICKS
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Date: 17 Apr 88 18:38:44 GMT
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I have found that if an application changes the value of the
global variable Ticks (time in ticks since startup), strange
things will happen to mouse clicking.  The problem I experienced
was that mouse clicks weren't recognized at all, but the double-clicking
problem you are describing could also come from the application
changing the value of Ticks, since the system uses the value of TICKS
to determine the time between double clicks.

I don't think this problem occurs on all Macs (I've never had it happen on
SE's).