Note the "perhaps".
Also, in #setPlatformPreferences it will change the actual preference so
that when loaded on a different Vm it will be unable to determine what the
user's preference was in the first place!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org]On Behalf Of Bert
> Freudenberg
> Sent: 14 September 2006 9:07 PM
> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
> Subject: Automatic Button Swap (was Re: An 3.9 image for developers)
>
>
> Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
> > Hi Gary,
> >
> > on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 20:58:01 +0200, you wrote:
> >> Or perhaps this should be put in, due to VM differences:
> >>
> >> Preferences class>>swapMouseButtons
> >>     "If we are on windows, flip anyway so that we are compatible
> >>     with other oses."
> >>
> >>     |answer|
> >>     answer := self
> >>         valueOfFlag: #swapMouseButtons
> >>         ifAbsent: [false].
> >>     SmalltalkImage current platformName = 'Win32'
> >
> > Good idea but, what happens when the VM is corrected (the
> dev.image will
> > be downlodable for many years to come).
> >
> > /Klaus
> >
> >>         ifTrue: [answer := answer not].
> >>     ^answer
>
> Please do *not* put such changes in obscure places. There is a
> well-defined place for that (#setPlatformPreferences).
>
> Besides, the actual button behavior depends also on the VM preferences
> (F2 menu on Windows). That's a much better place to adjust this to your
> liking.
>
> - Bert -
>