On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:

> It seems like a VM bug though. The VM is supposed to do the mapping, and
> the VM options are there to configure that.
>

Cog's platform tree is a fork from (I think) Squeak 3.8 and was modified at
Qwaq/Teleplace over quite a few years. I think the right approach is to
merge in the standard platform hierarchy so that the Cog VM's behaviour
agrees with the standard VM.  But that's work :(

IIUC the interpreter VM on Windows gets it right, yes?
>
> - Bert -
>
> On 20.10.2011, at 17:21, Chris Cunningham wrote:
>
> > Well, I've personally just been frustrated by it (as a Windows Cog
> > user).  But, I haven't been using it regularly enough to try and track
> > anything down.
> >
> > -Chris
> > On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Aran Lunzer <aranlunzer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I just posted a one-method proposed change to EventSensor, as a way to
> >> enable use of both yellow- and blue-button clicks in a Cog VM running
> >> on Windows.
> >>
> >> Background:
> >>
> >> Running a Squeak image with Cog on Windows (for example, the 4.3alpha
> >> image on Cog 4.0.0 of Oct 9, 2011) it seems there is no way to have
> >> both yellow-click (e.g., context menu) and blue-click (e.g., halo)
> >> available at the same time.
> >>
> >> Without enabling either of the VM (F2) 1-button or 3-button mouse
> >> settings, the behaviour of the right button of a 2-button mouse is
> >> determined by the swapMouseButtons preference.
> >>
> >> With swapMouseButtons enabled, the available clicks are
> >>
> >>   Left:  red
> >>   Ctrl-left:  [morphic menu]
> >>   Alt-left: red
> >>   Right: blue
> >>
> >> With swapMouseButtons disabled, the only change is
> >>
> >>   Right: yellow
> >>
> >> On MacOS there is additional scope for configuration, through
> >> info.plist.  But not on Windows.
> >>
> >>
> >> Proposed fix:
> >>
> >> It seems that what's needed is a call of mapButtons:modifiers: from
> >> EventSensor>>processEvent:
> >> With this step included (for non-MacOS platforms only), we can obtain
> >> the following mapping:
> >>
> >> [swapMouseButtons disabled]
> >>
> >>   Left: red
> >>   Ctrl-left: [morphic menu]
> >>   Alt-left: blue
> >>   Right: yellow
> >>
> >>
> >> ...so finally we have a way to get blue *and* a way to get yellow
> >> (with thanks to Bert Freudenberg for helping track down where the
> >> mapping should be done).
> >>
> >> What I don't understand is how other people have been doing this up to
> >> now.  Surely there are some Windows users of Cog??
> >>
> >>
> >> Aran
> >> --
> >> Aran Lunzer
> >> Viewpoints Research
> >>
> >>
> >
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-- 
best,
Eliot
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