Xref: utzoo comp.sys.mac.hardware:979 comp.sys.mac:45218 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!rex!ames!scubed!s3dawn!warner From: warner@s3dawn.ARPA (Ken Warner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: hack a multi-button mouse? Message-ID: <159@scubed.SCUBED.COM> Date: 29 Dec 89 18:08:05 GMT References: Sender: news@scubed.COM Reply-To: warner@s3dawn.UUCP (Ken Warner) Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac Distribution: comp Organization: S-CUBED, A Division of Maxwell Labs; San Diego CA Lines: 28 In article dbristo@cadev6.intel.com (David Bristor ~) writes: >The Mac's mouse has a single button physically, but several logically due to >shift clicking, etc. Hypercard adds it's own, with command-shift-click, and I >suppose other apps have their own as well. So whaddy'a think: can we take a >stock Logitech or other mouse, add some logic and hardware and an ADB >interface (and possibly some software), and get a multi-button mouse for the >Mac? Say, left=click, middle=shift-click, and so on. > >Is this possible? Reasonable? I know beans about ADB. >-- > Dave Bristor > friar@well.com > {biggies}!hplabs!well!friar Why haven't mouse-makers figured this out? I'd love a three button mouse. I Smalltalk-80 and am really tired of using two arms to click a mouse button. I thought that one way to do this would be to make a little hardware device that sits on the ADB between a three button mouse and the computer. This imaginary device would be able to sense which mouse button was clicked and pull the appropriate lines to simulate an option-click or command-click or whatever. I also imagined that a DIP switch could be used to "program" this beastie to simulate any arbitrary click and key combination. How much could something like this cost? Probably peanuts! Ken Warner warner@scubed.scubed.com