Mouse buttons under Mac OS X

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Fri Jan 25 22:19:36 UTC 2002


>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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