[Newbies] three button mice on windows and macs

[Bakki Kudva]

Hi Rainer,

On my MacBookPro (no mouse) I use option-click to get middle button
funtions. Could you not option-left-click on the mouse and get the
same?

-bakki

On 8/31/06, Rainer Keller <driverwriter at mac.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am pretty new to Squeak. I just wrote a minimal parser of some
> configuration files and started to feel comfortable in the environment.
>
> Now since a few years I mostly use macs but at my new job I will have
> to work with Windows again. So I loved that fact that I can open my
> Squeak image on OSX and XP and just use the tools that I create in
> squeak on both systems.
>
> On both systems I have three button mice. Because the scroll wheel
> (middle) button is rather hard to press I am using it to get the
> halos, with the right mouse button used for the context menu. Now I
> found the general preference to set this up, but the behavior is
> inverse on windows than on macs. So when switching platforms I always
> have to change the preference.
>
> Did I overlook another setting or a configuration file that would fix
> this? Or in which class (or possibly where in the VM code) would be a
> good place to fix this?
>
> Best regards,
> Rainer Keller
>
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