mickey@altos86.Altos.COM (Michael Thompson) (04/13/90)
I am trying to use virtual buttons 4 and 5 under mwm. (supposedly, button "4" is buttons 1 and 2 pressed together and button "5" is buttons 2 and 3 pressed together) I do have a line <Btn4Down> window f.menu RootMenu in the Buttons section of my .mwmrc, but pressing buttons 1 and 2 together does not invoke RootMenu. I see that the problem might be that when one mouse button is held down, the other mouse buttons will generate ButtonRelease events but not ButtonPress events! Is this a bug? Note that I am using an X-terminal with an R3 based server; everything else is R4. If it is a bug, has it been fixed in the R4 server? Is there any other way to do what I want to do? Thanks, -Michael mickey@altos.Altos.COM
graaf@unc.cs.unc.edu (Kees de Graaf) (04/14/90)
In article <3361@altos86.Altos.COM> mickey@altos86.Altos.COM (Michael Thompson) writes: >I am trying to use virtual buttons 4 and 5 under mwm. >(supposedly, button "4" is buttons 1 and 2 pressed together and >button "5" is buttons 2 and 3 pressed together) > ... etcetera >I see that the problem might be that when one mouse button is held down, >the other mouse buttons will generate ButtonRelease events but not >ButtonPress events! ... etcetera ... I'm quite grateful for that! For ergonomical reasons I (and many other people with me) believe that the optimum number of buttons - in terms of user interface efficiency - on the pointing device is between 1 and 2. For good reasons, apparently, Apple rounded the number to 1 (one). What is your aim, Michael, a mouse with a keyboard sitting on its back? :-)