[Virtualacorn-list] Mouse adjust problem with Mac OS

Tim Powys-Lybbe tim at powys.org
Sun Jul 5 22:16:01 BST 2015


On 5 Jul at 17:16, Tricia Garner <tricia at orchid-squad.org.uk> wrote:

> Just to complicate things I am left-handed, so on the the Mac side I
> have the left button set as 'Secondary Button' and the right side is
> 'Primary Button'. The Scroll Pea is set as 'Button 3' which used to
> cause it to act as the Menu button on the VRPC side but now the
> Secondary Button opens the Menu instead of being 'Adjust-click' and
> the Scroll Pea doesn't do anything at all.
> 
> I really miss all the Adjust-click actions and have tried all sorts of
> permutations to get it back but no luck so far. What puzzles me is
> that if I set the Mouse section in VRPC's Preferences to Left: Select
> and Right: Adjust, 'Select' selects blocks of text and can only be
> cancelled with the Scroll Pea (it does have an action then!) but the
> cursor remains at the end point of the selection. This is not very
> useful for editing.
> 
> In VRPC Mouse is set as Standard mouse in Configuration.
> 
> I haven't figured out whether this sea change is down to Yosemite or
> the newer VRPC.

All is OK here on this Mac with OS 10.10.3.  The VRPC is version 1.7.0;
what is yours?

I don't have a 'Scroll Pea' though.

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