Hi all, Keith wrote: >> OK thanks anne >> sorry but how then do i do a right click or it's equivalent? >> keith
and Anne Robertson wrote: >Hello Keith, > >Sorry if I've confused you but I know nothing about Windows so right >click and left click are alien concepts to me. > >On the Mac, you have a straightforward mouse click and a control >click. Control click is just to get contextual menus. There was a whole thread on the subject of "right clicking" over a year ago. Anne is correct that control-click brings up the contextual menu and l also use this (on my nice, small laptop). The other way to get the contextual menu is to use Control-Option-Shift-M, but Travis Siegel claimed that for web pages he didn't always get the full range of contextual menu options (such as opening the link in a new window) that control-clicking gives. Does anyone know whether Control-Option-Shift-M functionality for web pages is now effectively the same in Leopard as doing a Control-Click? It's probably a little awkward for laptop users on the larger models to Control-Click with the trackpad click key but it's very comfortable on the old 12" G4 PowerBooks and 13" Intel MacBooks. Incidentally, I find that there are now more options using the VoiceOver contextual menu command in applications such as iTunes compared with control-clicking. For example (still under Tiger) for podcast items there's an option to unsubscribe when I use Control-Option-Shift-M that is not there when I control-click on the same item. But I don't always see as many options for web page links For the curious, I append the relevant portion of the discussion from the archves. List members who are familiar with this can skip over it. Or, you can simply get the link to this in the Mailing List Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg08178.html Cheers, Esther Thread was: Re: Right Clicking (was Re: Voice of America...) Josh de Lioncourt Sun, 16 Jul 2006 08:01:25 -0700 Yeah, the mouse keys are far more reliable in these situations. VO+Shift+M works for a lot of stuff, but not nearly all. I do hope that mouse keys are made to work more fluidly with VO in future. For now, we are indeed stuck with Control+Click using mouse keys, though I expect that is highly inconvenient for laptop users. I plan on getting a MacBook in the near future, so would be interested to hear if anyone has discovered any other sollutions for this. At 07:40 AM 7/16/2006, you wrote: >On Jul 16, 2006, at 8:47 AM, Access Curmudgeon wrote: > >>Anyway, so-called right clicking (there is really no such thing in OS >>X, the term stems from broken Windows thinking) is actually invoking >>the contextual menu. >> >>The VO equivalent is Control-Option-Shift-M. > >Except that the vo equivalent isn't vo-shift-m regardless of what >folks continue to say on this list. >If I want to get the contextual menu while in safari, I can control >click the mouse on a link which will give me a series of options, >including open in new window, or download linked file. This menu >does not appear when using a vo-shift-M key combination. Therefore, >it is not the same thing. >Perhaps this works in *some* apps, but it is not a universal thing, >and therefore is *not* a substitute for holding down the control key >while physically clicking the mouse. >Now, if someone does know a key combination that performs this >action, I'd sure like to know what it is, because many many times >I've needed such a thing, and couldn't find anyway to perform such an >action.
