[Virtualacorn-list] Mouse adjust problem with Mac OS

[Tim Powys-Lybbe]

On 6 Jul at 18:21, Tricia Garner <tricia at orchid-squad.org.uk> wrote:

> In article <mpro.nr19qp25mxker006z.tim at powys.org>,
>    Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim at powys.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> > <nip>
> 
> Mac OS 10.10.3 here too but VRPC is version 1.7.5. I went straight
> from Mac OS 10.6 to 10.10 and thought I needed to upgrade VRPC to work
> properly with anything higher than Mac OS 10.9, but maybe not.
> 
> The 'Scroll Pea' is the official term for the pimple on the Mac mouse
> (was the Mighty Mouse, I think) used for scrolling and previously the
> middle button for VRPC. I've always called it the pimple, but that
> tends to annoy the afficionados! What do you use?

In fact I use a trackerball, thereby saving me some RSI (repetitive
strain injury).  It has four buttons to click on and they can be
programmed to do anything.

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Tim Powys-Lybbe                                           tim at powys.org
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