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From: Your Name on 1 Jun 2010 00:21 In article <310520101900168013%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>, nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > In article > <your.name-0106101357580001(a)203-109-168-122.dial.dyn.ihug.co.nz>, Your > Name <your.name(a)isp.com> wrote: > > > Any Mac could probably support a two / multi-button mouse if the company > > selling the device wanted to write driver software ... but the point is > > that the Mac doesn't need a two button mouse. Personally I very rarely had > > any need for more than one button. > > no drivers are needed with any usb standard mouse. > > it's the mice with zillions of buttons that require a driver, and there > are at least two third party mac drivers already (not from any mouse > maker), which support pretty much anything that exists, including all > sorts of custom functions that even the manufacturers don't offer. Yep, but I was going even further back to pre-USB, but I'm not sure if anyone actually bothered to offer a multi-button ADB mouse for Macs.
From: Your Name on 1 Jun 2010 00:23 In article <310520101901543873%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>, nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > In article > <your.name-0106101402460001(a)203-109-168-122.dial.dyn.ihug.co.nz>, Your > Name <your.name(a)isp.com> wrote: > > > Not only that, but the multi-button mice can be {beep}ingly annoying. The > > first thing I do when setting up any new Mac is turn off the extra > > buttons. Personally I find the "squeeze" button of the Mighty Mouse > > especially annoying, continually "going off" when I don't want it to just > > because I'm moviing the mouse around. > > one thing they did right on the magic mouse is remove the side buttons. > those falsed all the time. unfortunately, the shape of the magic mouse > is not very comfortable, at least for me. I haven't used the Magic Mouse much yet, but when I did use one for a while doing some DTP layout work I found that I kept scrolling the window contents by accident when moving the mouse around. After using a Mighty Mouse for a while, I often come back to my own ADB mouse and keep trying to scroll with the non-existant mouse ball. :-)
From: Your Name on 1 Jun 2010 00:24 In article <310520101903430428%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>, nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > In article > <your.name-0106101404380001(a)203-109-168-122.dial.dyn.ihug.co.nz>, Your > Name <your.name(a)isp.com> wrote: > > > Like the Apple mice, the trackpad does have REAL buttons, they simply > > aren't visible ones. The bottom of the trackpad has at leat one cliackable > > button (I haven't checked to see if there are two separate ones or perhaps > > a left-right rocker switch). > > there is only one physical button. everything else is done via > multitouch and software. I thought there was only one, but I seem to vaguely recall being able to right-click it ... but that could easily be wrong.
From: nospam on 1 Jun 2010 00:22 In article <your.name-0106101621070001(a)203-109-166-105.dial.dyn.ihug.co.nz>, Your Name <your.name(a)isp.com> wrote: > Yep, but I was going even further back to pre-USB, but I'm not sure if > anyone actually bothered to offer a multi-button ADB mouse for Macs. plenty did.
From: nospam on 1 Jun 2010 00:23
In article <your.name-0106101624220001(a)203-109-166-105.dial.dyn.ihug.co.nz>, Your Name <your.name(a)isp.com> wrote: > > > Like the Apple mice, the trackpad does have REAL buttons, they simply > > > aren't visible ones. The bottom of the trackpad has at leat one cliackable > > > button (I haven't checked to see if there are two separate ones or perhaps > > > a left-right rocker switch). > > > > there is only one physical button. everything else is done via > > multitouch and software. > > I thought there was only one, but I seem to vaguely recall being able to > right-click it ... but that could easily be wrong. you can right click it. either use two fingers, set up a right-click area or use the control key. |