What are the issues in putting a 3 button mouse on a MacII?
John R. Galloway
jrg at Apple.COM
Wed Mar 1 11:31:22 AEST 1989
I am strongly considering getting a MacII for my Unix development.
I understand that X 11 under A/UX uses the cursor keys for the left and
right mouse buttons. If you are really going to use X this does not seem
like a very workable solution (i.e. ok for occasional use but makeing any
common mouse action require an extra hand movement seems pretty undesrieable).
What are the issues in connecting a 3 button mouse to a MacII? the possible
confgurations in order of desireability seem to be:
add serial mouse to existing or additional serial port, add a
A/UX driver for it and use this mouse only under X, and
the standard ADB mouse for Mac OS.
same as above, but modify/replace the existing mouse driver to
allow Mac/OS to view all the buttons as "one" and for
X to distinguish them, thus having only one mouse for both.
same as above but build a serial->ADB converter. Can this be
powered off the ADB? i.e. as long as it doesn't need
another cord it would not be a hassle.
Are there issues that make this practicaly impossible? Is it doable by a
third party? What gives? Of course what I would REALLY like is to be able to
run a (32 bit clean) MacOS program IN an X window, but thats another topic.
apple!jrg John R. Galloway, Jr. contract programmer, San Jose, Ca
These are my views, NOT Apple's, I am a GUEST here, not an employee!!
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