Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!lloyd!kent
From: kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Finder improvements
Message-ID: <264@lloyd.camex.uucp>
Date: 23 Nov 88 01:52:32 GMT
References: <1665@pur-phy>
Reply-To: kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg)
Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA
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In article <1665@pur-phy> sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
>Does everybody like the velocity dependent mouse?  

I do.  It is amazingly powerful, use Sunview for a while if you want
to be sure.  I think it is a very important part of what makes the
Macintosh so good.

>I would go for a two button mouse, although I still think a one button 
>mouse is still easier to use.  

Though I think 2 or 3 buttons are far too many, if a manufacturer
insists on having more than one button on a mouse, I think it very
important that they not be distinguished only by left/right (shame on
you nExt!), new Microsoft mice are better than the old in this
respect.  Far too many normal people get left and right confused--just
imagine how dislexics feel.

(Actually, I suspect that left handed dislexics were among the first
to embrace the Mac.  How many others of you are out there??)

>                               On a related note, why is there no 
>doubleClickEvt?  Applications that don't use double clicks could disable
>the event, and a double click would be interepereted as two single clicks.
>
>-Sho

A very good reason.  A double click takes time.  If every single click
had to wait long enough to be sure it was not part of a double click
before it could be reported, the Macintosh would be very sluglish.

A single click is part of a double click.  Double clicks should be
additions to single clicks so that when the first click comes by it
can be treated like a single click and when the second click arrives
the application extends the single click to whatever the application's
specific idea of what a double click is.

Kent Borg
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