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In article <1989Dec18.081450.28019@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu>, flee@shire.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes:
> The problem with multi-button mice is confusion of buttons.  My prime
> example is the game "xmille".  You click the left button on a card to
> discard it, the right button to play it.  Or is it the other way
> around?  Each button is used about equally often.  You sometimes have
> to discard cards for a long time, so when you finally get a card you
> can play, you naturally discard it.  An IBM PC version of mille that
> uses the right and left arrows is about as bad.  Poor design.
> 
This is a case of using the mouse when it is not necessary.  A sensible way of
doing this would be to have the `d' and `p' keys from the keyboard.  I feel
that having a mouse available frequently causes the keyboard to be ignored
when it is the more suited to a certain job.  When I use drawing packages on
the Mac, I tend to use a full screen mode.  When I need to change from say a
pencil to a rubber, I have to call up the tools palette, select the rubber and
then hide the palette once more.  A far simpler way to do this would be to
press the `r' key (or `e' key).

> The problem may be just lack of consistency; every application seems
> to want to use the mouse buttons in a different way.  If, say, the
> right button always moved windows around, there may be less confusion.
> 
But the single button on the Mac mouse causes similar problems when you try
and do something with a modifier; now was it command, shift, control or all of
them?

Anyway, how can anyone scroll a window using a one button mouse?  (:-)

Ian
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