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Article #1105

Re: Middle mousebutton

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From: Michael Portuesi
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1989 09:24
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In article <456@mindlink.UUCP> a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor) writes:

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   From: a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor)
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   Date: 29 Aug 89 16:48:52 GMT
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   In Msg-ID: <PORTUESI.89Aug29093052@tweezers.esd.sgi.com>,
   Michael Portuesi writes:
   | I'm pretty sure Intuition has had support for the middle mouse button
   | since the beginning.  It's certainly there from 1.2 onward.
   |
   |                                --M
   |
      Ummm. Not sure what you are looking at, Michael. The codes have been
    assigned, but intuition ignores the input.device data.


Sometime's I'm not sure what I'm looking at myself.  Anyway, yes the
codes are assigned.  I went ahead and made the assumption that
Intuition did support the middle button, and that there was simply a
lack of hardware and applications to take advantage of the feature.

				--M


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Subject: Re: Middle mousebutton
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