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- From: tima@sequent.com (Timothy Alan Anderson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
- Subject: Why 3 button mice in Oberon?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.223854.11203@sequent.com>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 22:38:54 GMT
- Article-I.D.: sequent.1992Sep15.223854.11203
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- Organization: Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
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- I have just started perusing the various papers at gatekeeper.dec.com
- about Oberon, and have purchased the book "The Oberon System" by
- Martin Reiser. I fail to see why such a well thought out system uses
- something so specific as a three button mouse. The girations
- required to 'interclick' are so rediculous that I can't imagine anyone
- favoring this approach. I am up to page 25 in
- "The Oberon System" and there are allready two 'CAUTION' flags regarding
- erronous 'interclicking'. Are there real benifits to this approach? Six
- different button combinations allready has me sticking post-it notes
- on my monitor so that I can remember what does what.
-
- I favor a 'one button' mouse approach, with single clicks, double clicks
- and drags as the only viable choices. (No, I do not own a Macintosh). Has
- anyone mapped an Oberon system out that uses this as a requirement?
-
- Lastly, the oberon system on gatekeeper.dec.com doesn't seem to work at
- all on my computer (486/33, windows, two button mouse). This is too bad...
-
- tima@sequent.com
-
- PS: Is there any way to make sure a standards comittee never get's it's hands
- on Oberon? ;-)
-