three button mice on windows and macs

> Hi All,
>
> I am pretty new to Squeak. I just wrote a minimal parser of some
> configuration files and started to feel comfortable in the environment.
>
> Now since a few years I mostly use macs but at my new job I will have
> to work with Windows again. So I loved that fact that I can open my
> Squeak image on OSX and XP and just use the tools that I create in
> squeak on both systems.
>
> On both systems I have three button mice. Because the scroll wheel
> (middle) button is rather hard to press I am using it to get the
> halos, with the right mouse button used for the context menu. Now I
> found the general preference to set this up, but the behavior is
> inverse on windows than on macs. So when switching platforms I always
> have to change the preference.
>
> Did I overlook another setting or a configuration file that would fix
> this? Or in which class (or possibly where in the VM code) would be a
> good place to fix this?
>
> Best regards,
> Rainer Keller
>
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> Hi Rainer,
>
> On my MacBookPro (no mouse) I use option-click to get middle button
> funtions. Could you not option-left-click on the mouse and get the
> same?
>
> -bakki
>
> On 8/31/06, Rainer Keller <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am pretty new to Squeak. I just wrote a minimal parser of some
>> configuration files and started to feel comfortable in the  
>> environment.
>>
>> Now since a few years I mostly use macs but at my new job I will have
>> to work with Windows again. So I loved that fact that I can open my
>> Squeak image on OSX and XP and just use the tools that I create in
>> squeak on both systems.
>>
>> On both systems I have three button mice. Because the scroll wheel
>> (middle) button is rather hard to press I am using it to get the
>> halos, with the right mouse button used for the context menu. Now I
>> found the general preference to set this up, but the behavior is
>> inverse on windows than on macs. So when switching platforms I always
>> have to change the preference.
>>
>> Did I overlook another setting or a configuration file that would fix
>> this? Or in which class (or possibly where in the VM code) would be a
>> good place to fix this?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Rainer Keller
>>
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>> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners
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> Rainer Keller wrote:
>
>> Oh, I am able to get all three mouse buttons. It is just that middle
>> and right button are swapped when I use the same image once on the PC
>> and once on the Mac. And I can even change that if I go to preferences
>> every time I switch. I just want to find out how I can avoid that
>> inconvenience :) Basically the default mapping on windows and mac to
>> the buttons of a 3-button mouse seems to be different, at least with
>> the mice that I have. Can anyone confirm that with his mice perhaps or
>> give me pointers where to fix this?
>
> I was similarly annoyed by this some time ago and created a Preference
> called "swap mouse buttons" or something like that. This will swap the
> middle and right button.