[squeak-dev] two bugs with fonts 4.5-13671

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Thu Feb 6 22:06:28 UTC 2014


On 6 February 2014 21:19, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
> On 06.02.2014, at 22:08, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 6 February 2014 20:56, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:
>>> On 06.02.2014, at 21:54, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have two machines, both Windows boxes, _one_ of
>>>> which needs swapping switched off to have proper clicks.
>>>
>>> With identical VM settings?
>>
>> Actually, you know, I'm completely mistaken. I must have misremembered
>> the events of last night (when last I fired up an image on my
>> non-weird laptop), because I see now I need to unswap on _both_
>> machines to get sensible mouse behaviour.
>>
>> Sorry for the noise :(
>
> No problem. But the normal way to fix this is changing the VM settings rather than the preference.
>
> We should verify that our VMs do the Right Thing by default though. Right click should generate blue button on all platforms, unless you change from the default settings. The Etoys image does have swap buttons off, so right click is blue and brings up the halos, which is correct for Etoys. Squeak-dev image has swap buttons on, so right click is yellow and brings up the context menu.

I may well be in a minority of one. If I right click, I get halos. In
_my_ opinion, that's completely wrong, and should bring up a context
menu. (In fact, I don't even know how to bring up a context menu
without fixing the buttons.) Because, you know, host OSes have trained
me. But I freely admit to having been trained in the way of Windows,
Gnome, KDE, and (as little as possible) OS X, so I'm content to just
fix the preference in my own images. There are even tests to show that
on Windows the buttons do the wrong things (sorry, I can't resist).

I was, however, completely unaware of any VM settings regarding mouse buttons!

frank

> - Bert -


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