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Article #1041Re: Multi-button mice (Re: Xerox sues Apple!)
From: Andrew MacRae
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 22:41
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1990 22:41
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In article <cZesptu00VsPQ2TvYm@andrew.cmu.edu> wjh+@andrew.cmu.edu (Fred Hansen) writes: >Excerpts from netnews.comp.cog-eng: 9-Jan-90 Re: Multi-button mice (Re: >.. Charles White@cadlab.UUC (193) > >> Why on earth would anyone implement a scrollbar that used more then one button? > >Because a click on one button does a page down operation toward the tail >end of the document and a click on the other button does a page up >operation to move toward the top of the document. > In addition, it is very usefull to be able to click the middle button and 'zap' to the reletive position in the file.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!uupsi!nyser!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!amdcad!sun!grendal!acm From: acm@grendal.Sun.COM (Andrew MacRae) Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng Subject: Re: Multi-button mice (Re: Xerox sues Apple!) Message-ID: <130148@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 11 Jan 90 22:41:26 GMT References: <172@comcon.UUCP> <7326@ficc.uu.net> <9320@hoptoad.uucp> <1989Dec18.081450.28019@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu> <4865.258f9c91@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk> <581@cadlab.cadlab.de> <cZesptu00VsPQ2TvYm@andrew.cmu.edu> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: acm@sun.UUCP (Andrew MacRae) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 13