[Physltest] [Phys-L] Re: tracker on mac

[Aaron Titus <titus@MAILAPS.ORG>]

You may have misunderstood me. I know that two-button mice work on a
Mac, and I use a Logitech trackball myself. However, if a program is
written so that ctrl-click means anything other than right-click, the
OS interprets the ctrl-click as a right-click and the software will not
work as anticipated by the program's author.

Note that in Windows, ctrl-click is not interpreted as a right-click.
On a Mac, it is interpreted as a right-click even if you have a
two-button mouse. Thus, software that relies on ctrl-click to mean
anything other than right-click will not work properly.

Aaron

On Jan 28, 2005, at 4:05 PM, Pamela L. Gay wrote:

> FYI - two button mice work fine on Macs. I've replaced all my Mac mice
> with Logitech 2-button trackballs.
>
> Cheers,
> Pamela
>
> Aaron Titus wrote:
> > This is most likely a Mac-specific bug because ctrl on Mac is used for
> > a right mouse-click. Thus, ctrl-click on Mac is different than
> > ctrl-click on a PC.
> >
> > I've emailed Doug Brown to tell him of the bug. He doesn't use Mac, so
> > he doesn't know about Mac-specific bugs. And since I don't use my Mac
> > for video analysis, I haven't found the Mac-specific bugs myself. I
> > encourage you to try it once he fixes this bug and alert him to any
> > others.
> >
> > Aaron
> >
> > On Jan 28, 2005, at 3:35 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
> >
> >
> > > it says to mark: control + click; nada happens. (cross hair does
> > > appear)
>
> --
> **********************************
> Pamela L. Gay, Ph.D.
> Instructional Laboratory Associate
> Science Center, 303
> 617-495-2039, pgay@fas.harvard.edu
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