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From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench 1.4 suggestion
Message-ID: <8Y=yKhy00Uka0O8RcI@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 89 20:06:05 GMT
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darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson) writes:
> In article <4Y=Fz7y00UkaMLBMV1@andrew.cmu.edu> bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) writes:
> >dan@ivucsb.UUCP (Dan Howell) writes:
> >> On Xerox workstations, the function of a middle button is emulated on a
> >> two button mouse by pressing both buttons simultaneously.  This is
> >> called "chording" the mouse.  Perhaps Intution could support this.
> >
> >Definitely.  [It may sound inconvenient, but in practice, it's just fine]
> 
> This may break some things.  I know of at least two programs that use
> a sequence like "hold left mouse button, then click right mouse
> button".  Also, holding the right mouse button and then clicking the
> left means extended menu selection from Intuition.

On the machine I'm using (that does the middle-button emulation), a chord
is only interpreted as a middle button if the buttons both go down within
some small time period (about 30ms) of each either.  So you have have both a
middle button and right-left (or left-right) down sequences on a two button
mouse...

-Miles