Mouse buttons under Mac OS X

Mark Mayfield mmayfield at ev1.net
Fri Jan 25 22:44:57 UTC 2002


'SwapMouseButtons3.0-nk.cs' if it works would swap the option-click 
and command-click. I'm trying to swap the option-click with a 
ctrl-click.

Mark


>There's a 'SwapMouseButtons3.0-nk.cs' change set floating around
>somewhere that I think does this.  It also makes it a preferences option
>in the Preferences panel.  I think.
>
>Nevin
>
>>  John M McIntosh wrote:
>>
>>  >> Greetings...
>>  >>
>>  >> I seems that Mac OS X maps the right mouse button to be a ctrl-click
>>  >> (at least it does with a Microsoft mouse). Under OS 9 you could map
>>  >> the right mouse button (using Microsoft's mouse control panel) to be
>>  >> an option-click when running Squeak. Since there doesn't seem to be
>>  >> any way to map an option-click to the right mouse button under OS X,
>>  >> is there a way to configure Squeak to swap the option-click and
>>  >> ctrl-click?
>>  >>
>>  >> Thanks,
>>  >> Mark
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > This could be done in Squeak at the point where pickup the events
>>  >
>>  > See EventSensor>>processEvent:
>>  >
>>  > Somewhere there you could fiddle with the button state. See the class
>>  > comment.
>  > >
>  > > You could then make this a general preference to swap the middle/right
>  > > button.
>  >
>  >




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