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From: magik@sorinc.PacBell.COM (Darrin A. Hyrup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BOING! BOING! BOING!
Summary: There are a few, but not many.
Keywords: boing mouse optical center button
Message-ID: <8912121918.AA09841@sorinc.PacBell.COM>
Date: 12 Dec 89 19:18:16 GMT
References: <1084@psc90.UUCP>
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Yes, I'd like that.
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In article <1084@psc90.UUCP> pyr464@psc90.UUCP (Fred Slama) writes:
>Attention those who own a BOING! Mouse... Do any of you have a program that
>enables the use of the middle button.. I have owned my Boing mouse for
>about a year and have tried a variety of programs, none of which seem to do
>the tricks. Thanks in advance to any of you who can shed some light on this
>very annoying search for a program...

There are a few programs out there that support 3-button mice, and others
that can be configured to use them. For example, I use the center mouse
button with DME on a regular basis, and from what I am told, the X11 server
uses the center mouse button standard. I have also heard rumors that the
new Amiga UNIX SVR4 uses it as well. But as for commercially available
software I really don't know of too many others.

You might check the mouse handlers (like dmouse, machII, etc) for support.
I don't use one myself, so I am not familiar with all their features. But I
would assume they would at least be able to be configured to support the
use of the center button.

Until 3 button mice become more predominant, its unlikely that too many
developers will write code to use the center mouse button unless they
themselves have a 3-button mouse. So, it might be time to lobby the
developer population for support of the center button. (I know I try to
support it in any of my projects that could use it). The only problem is,
that the programmers must write the code so that anyone can use it.
Regardless if the user has a 2 or 3 button mouse. So, the center mouse
button would usually be ignored or assigned to a task that can be handled
via a menu selection or toggle or something, if it is used at all. Many
developers don't think the added work is worth it for such a limited
audience.

Personally I prefer the configuration or remapping facilities of programs
like DME, so that if I want to use the center mouse button, I can assign it
to do what *I* want it to do, not what someone else thinks I may want it to
do.

>                                                -Fred

Hope that helps,

          Darrin
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Darrin A. Hyrup              // AMIGA Enthusiast         rencon!esfenn!dah
magik@sorinc.PacBell.COM   \X/ & Software Developer   pacbell!sorinc!magik
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