[comp.sys.mac.comm] Three-button mouse for MacX?

kahn@wucs1.wustl.edu (Michael Kahn) (10/02/90)

X-window was made for a 3-button mouse.  MacX uses the arrow keys to
make up from the two missing mouse buttons -- and practical but
annoying solution.

Are there any three button mouses available for the Mac that will
allow you to program the second and third buttons to emulate the
keystokes expected by MacX?

THanks,
Michael Kahn
(kahn@informatics.WUSTL.EDU)

jason@cs.utexas.edu (Jason Martin Levitt) (10/03/90)

In article <1990Oct2.111225.8010@cec1.wustl.edu> kahn@wucs1.wustl.edu (Michael Kahn) writes:
> [stuff deleted]
>Are there any three button mouses available for the Mac that will
>allow you to program the second and third buttons to emulate the
>keystokes expected by MacX?
>
  According to the people at Apple and White Pines who I talked to last
month, there are definitely 3rd party mice under development, but they
declined to name the developers. Perhaps the developers would care to 
identify themselves?

     ---Jason  jason@cs.utexas.edu

jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) (10/06/90)

Michael Kahn <kahn@wucs1.wustl.edu> writes:

	Are there any three button mouses available for the Mac that
	will allow you to program the second and third buttons to
	emulate the keystokes expected by MacX?

This month's MacUser has an ad from Mouse Systems for a thing called

	 3
	A  Mouse

It claims it's A/UX, X-Windows, MacOS -able, but I haven't seen anyone
selling them yet.  It's optical, not mechanical (yay!).

/jordan