[net.micro.atari16] Right mouse button

apratt@atari.UUcp (Allan Pratt) (09/30/86)

The fact is, the you can wait for the right mouse button just as well as
the left.  What you can't do is wait for "EITHER the right OR the left
button."  If you study the semantics of the evnt_button call, you will see
why.

What you CAN do is substitute your own button handler, using the well-defined
GEM interface (rather than mucking with hardware interrupts).  See the
VDI call "Exchange button change vector" and Appendix E, "Processor-Specific
Data."

Once you get the hang of that, your control of the mouse buttons can get
as fine as you like!  Imagine: long-click vs. short-click,  Left followed
by right as different from right followed by left...  The possibilities
are endless! :-)

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