Subject: Re: mouse question
To: Taras Ivanenko <ivanenko@ctpa03.mit.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/29/1996 18:09:12
> 
> I decided to upgrade my system and ordered Mouse Deluxe Mac by
> MicroSpeed Inc. It has 3 buttons and the catalogue entry said that it
> should be compatible with A/UX. As it became apparent, it is not
> supporting the proper protocol. During boot there is a line 
> relative positioning device (47) ...
> and after that the left and the right buttons work as a left button,
> center button generates down-mouse-1 event on the first click and
> up-mouse-1 event on a second.
> 
> Has anyone made this rodent work under NetBSD? I tried first to look
> at company's home page for technical information, but it is
> unaccessible. Probably, someone is still sleeping down there in
> California.

I could be wrong, but from my experiences w/ my 3-button mouse, it sounds
fine. My mouse can be programmed, and seems to remember its program.
So I can program it to have all buttons the same, or buttons act like
key presses, etc. The press once for down, again for up is different, but
a number of track balls claim to do that.

So there should be a little MacOS control panel which should let you
change the behavior. I think you want the center button to act like
option-left-arrow, and the right to be option-right arrow.

Take care,

Bill