On the Mac, the default right-click behavior is the halo. I wonder about whether or not this is the right default choice on the platform for Squeak. It definitely makes sense for Etoys, though. For middle click, you hold command.
I think using colors to identify them is probably great for kids (as long as you're picking colors in shades that are visibly different in black and white,) and terrible for adults across the board.
Since different input devices may have buttons in different orders, and others may have no buttons at all (!) I really wish we'd call them what they do. Semantic names for the actions, like maybe...
#(indicator context meta)
On the way to 4.0 I stopped flipping swapMouseButtons and got used to holding option to get my contextual menus because I was working on the release artifact and didn't want to forget and leave my preferences lying all over the place... heh.
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Ken G. Brown
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At 7:38 PM -0500 12/14/10, Chris Cunnington apparently wrote:
>I usually press command+click for blue (halos).
>I usually press control+click for yellow (menu).
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>I kept trying to press them together in some kind of timing to do the trick. Didn't work.
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>Go to SystemPreferences>>Mouse and activate a Secondary Button for your mouse. (There are lots of options.) Now you can click on a window and get the halos (it's a blue click).
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>Now hold your finger down on the Control button and then click with the blue click function you just activated. Then you'll see it.
Tried this, and it appears that the cntl is being ignored, just get the halos.
Doing it this way seems slightly different than doing cntl-cmd-leftclick, which brings up the menu that has 'grab' at the first selector.
I didn't try the info.plist modification, preferring to do it theoretically. :)
Ken
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>And for fun, go to the Info.plist and change SqueakMouseNoneButton1 to 3. Close and restart your image. Now try to save and quit. :p
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>Chris
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