jabr@umb.umb.edu (John Abreau) (07/17/87)
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Recently someone posted a complaint about the new mouse that comes with
the SE and the II; it seems that occasionally the Mac acts as though the
mouse button is being held down, when in fact it isn't. At last night's
BCS MacTechGroup meeting, this happened to our SE in the middle of a
presentation being given by the author of SuperMandelZoom. We tried a number
of things to fix it, such as clicking the mouse button repeatedly, turning
the mouse over and whacking it, and such; we were assuming the button was
actually the problem. I've since concluded that the problem was actually
with the ADB Manager.
Anyway, after these things failed to do anything, I tried activating MouseKeys.
This did the trick; when MouseKeys is active, the '5' on the keypad is a
mouse click (mouseDown and mouseUp), the '0' is a mouse drag (mouseDown),
and the '.' is a mouseUp. Hitting the dot fixed the problem.
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John M. Abreau, Dept of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts/Boston
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Opinions are provided AS IS, with no warranties, express or implied...thomas@uvabick.UUCP (Thomas Fruin) (07/22/87)
The problem with a 'sticky mouse' probably isn't related to the computer being an SE or II or to ADB. It has happened to me two times, and I'm using a Mac ED (also known as the 512e), with an old style mouse. But I am using System 4.1 (and Finder 5.5), so it looks like we have our culprit... -- Thomas Fruin fruin@hlerul5.BITNET thomas@uvabick.UUCP Leiden University, Netherlands
wiso@ihwpt.ATT.COM (Jack Wisowaty) (07/22/87)
In article <565@umb.umb.edu>, jabr@umb.umb.edu (John Abreau) writes: > > Recently someone posted a complaint about the new mouse that comes with > the SE and the II; it seems that occasionally the Mac acts as though the > mouse button is being held down, when in fact it isn't. ... > I've since concluded that the problem was actually with the ADB Manager. > > Anyway, after these things failed to do anything, I tried activating > MouseKeys. This did the trick; '.' is a mouseUp. Hitting the dot fixed > the problem. I wouldn't exactly call this fixing the problem unless the sticky click failed to return later (which I don't believe was the case, was it?). It's interesting that you think the mouse is not the problem. I would hope that that would mean a permanent fix will eventually be found. Is anyone out there working on this problem? Any comments from the Apple techies? Jack Wisowaty AT&T Bell Labs ihnp4!ihwpt!wiso
wiso@ihwpt.ATT.COM (Jack Wisowaty) (07/24/87)
In article <227@uvabick.UUCP>, thomas@uvabick.UUCP (Thomas Fruin) writes: > The problem with a 'sticky mouse' probably isn't related to the computer > being an SE or II or to ADB. It has happened to me two times, and I'm > using a Mac ED (also known as the 512e), with an old style mouse. > > But I am using System 4.1 (and Finder 5.5), so it looks like we have our > culprit... Unfortunately we have to keep looking. Because of the bad interactions between LightSpeed C and System 4.1, I've had to resort to using the old System 3.2, and I'm still having the problem. A copy of this exact same System never produced a problem on my old 512K. Tracing the origins of this problem seems to be going in circles. Do any other 512K or plus users have a sticky mouse? How about some help from the people who should know what's going on? Jack Wisowaty AT&T Bell Labs ihnp4!ihwpt!wiso