When I first encountered this problem, that's what I thought was the obvious answer. However, these buttons on my mouse must be broken, 'cause it doesn't work that way here.
Thanks though, Irv At 5:59 PM -0700 5/2/02, bhakti wrote: >actually, irv, you can pick up the mouse with the button down, >reposition it, and keep dragging with the button down. >there are two little button type things on the side of the mouse. one >under your thumb and one under your ring finger. they hardly press in, >and it seems like they do nothing, but hold those in and you can pick up >the mouse and replace it, and the button stays registered as down. > >:-) > >--bhakti > >Irv Kalb wrote: >> >> I've got a Mac G4 with the big (not round) optical mouse. Overall it >> works fine. But recently, I've been doing a lot of mousing around >> and am having trouble with carpal tunnel syndrome. This one seems >> awfully high - which may be contributing to the carpel tunnel. The >> mouse also has what I consider to be a flaw: while dragging across >> the screen (or two screens), you can't just pick up the mouse with >> the mouse button down and continue dragging. Does anyone have any >> suggestions for a replacement USB mouse that might work better? >> >> Please feel free to write me off-list. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Irv >> -- >> >> Lingo / Director / Shockwave development for all occasions. >> >> (Home-made Lingo cooked up fresh every day just for you.) >> [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, >>go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the >>list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with >>programming Lingo. Thanks!] >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go >to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the >list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with >programming Lingo. Thanks!] -- Lingo / Director / Shockwave development for all occasions. (Home-made Lingo cooked up fresh every day just for you.) [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
