I am using the same Trackman trackball that was shown on the eBay page along with the Marble FX index finger track ball. It has a ball for the thumb and a middle button that rolls and clicks. Click and drag is to hols down the left button and move the thumb ball.
I have a marble FX and the drivers for it were never satisfactory to my mind. There are some buttons that don't do anything. One of them is purported to be a drag button. You click on something with that button, hold it down and move the ball. I have never seen it work. The Trackman is flawless. I case anyone is curious this is how a popular CAD program implements the buttons. cursor anywhere, hold down middle button/wheel and move mouse/ball: entire assembly rotates about a point (centroid?) cursor anywhere roll middle button/wheel away: assembly shrinks (zoom out) Roll button towards self assembly grows (zoom in) cursor on a component of the assembly, left button down, move mouse/ball: component pans in plane parallel top view plane cursor on a component of the assembly, right button down, move mouse/ball: component rotates about a point. cursor on a component of the assembly, control key depressed, middle button/wheel down, move mouse/ball: entire asswembly pans parrallel to view plane cursor on a component of the assembly, control key depressed, left button down, move mouse/ball: a copy of the componenet pans parallel to view plane and remais when finished. cursor anywhere, depress shift key, hold middle button/wheel down and move mouse/ball upward: assembly grows (zoom in) ) like gnome spec. move mouse/ball downward: assembly shrinks (zoom out) ) like gnome spec. On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Sameer Sahasrabuddhe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On 9/3/08, Christian Ridderström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's what I've been using, but the above is stone age in terms > > of useability compared to click'n'drag to pan... > > Philip, > > For the sake of clarity, can you please explain what "click and drag" > means to you? From some of your posts, it seems you have never seen a > scroll wheel on a mouse, the one that also doubles as a middle > button. Most people don't use a trackball, and so dragging means > actually dragging the mouse on the surface (which where the action got > its name). > > Sameer. > -- > Research Scholar, Department of CSE, IIT Bombay > http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~sameerds/<http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/%7Esameerds/> > _______________________________________________ > dia-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list > FAQ at http://live.gnome.org/Dia/Faq > Main page at http://live.gnome.org/Dia > > -- Michael Ross ================================= Cycling in Central North Carolina Schwinn Voyageur 11.8 Linear LWB, Greenspeed GTO, BikeE CT, AT
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