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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sun4nl!alchemy!avgroeni
- From: avgroeni@cs.ruu.nl (Annius Groenink)
- Subject: Re: GEM.. what needs to be fixed, and soon!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.110354.28227@cs.ruu.nl>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 11:03:54 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.100551.4716@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk>
- Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
- Lines: 22
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- In <1992Aug27.100551.4716@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher) writes:
-
- >
- >(1) Response time for mouse button presses.
- >
- > Has anyone noticed that it takes about a second for a mouse press to
- >be acted upon under GEM? This delay is the same on the TT as on the ST. This
- >has put off a large number of people when I've tried to promote the ST/TT
- >for general use. It can be a right pain when you click on one item, move the
- >mouse and the system highlights the one your mouse just passed over.
- >
-
- GEM needs this time to determine the difference between a single and double
- click. Just set the double click speed to 4 (maximum) and your mouse buttons
- will react a lot faster. (You will have to learn the double click all over
- as well...)
-
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- Annius Groenink|undergraduate student
- Laan van Borgele 24|maths/computer science at the
- 7415 DJ Deventer|University of Utrecht, Holland.
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