<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Dimi Paun <<a href="mailto:dimi@lattica.com">dimi@lattica.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
All I heard up to this point are complicated/unreasonable/unfeasible<br>
solutions for newbies for a problem that we created and it's easy to<br>
fix. Wouldn't it be a lot more reasonable to give people by default what<br>
they are used to, and let power-users flip a switch?<br></blockquote></div><br>I assure you WE didnt create the 2nd mouse button.. it has existed historically for decades now. WE just make use of it, because its there to be made use of. I've worked on vms and unix system well before windows 3.1 was available where the 2nd mouse button was as useful as the left-most button. If you can't use your scroll-wheel and the middle button equally effectively.. then you have a piece of junk mouse and you should demand your money back. It's a basic design flaw in the hardware, no worse than buying a car and finding out that the break and the accelerator are the same pedal and being told that if you have to touch it in different ways to get the car to either go faster or to stop. That being said, I use my 2nd button on my scroll wheel mouse just fine. <br>
. <br>How about we just assume that all pointing devices have a single button and nothing else, one big button....with no double-clicking either. I know some apple mice that are real close to this. You code software assuming that, and you should work around pretty much any physical device design flaws. And such software should pretty much work for the most common denominator...exposing all functionality by requiring the use of keyboard and mouse to expose additional functionality. And in the case of the functionality which started this gripefest, you have that very solution at hand... middle click is exposed via the shift key as previously explained. <br>
<br>-jef<br>