And the scroll wheel. The pre-MacOSX suffered from too many "magical" keyboard shortcuts. When the internet didn't exist, it wasn't that easy to find out what these all where. It was just great that you could rebuild a Mac by booting off an external SCSI drive and copying over a folder (after separating out the system suitcase on the existing install). But you needed to know all these random things.
Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, 9 September 2010 8:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix >From my usage, it appears, however, that context menus are not well >supported.. perhaps because they aren't as immediately "discoverable"? I dunno.. I understand that would be more of an app issue, but I really find the right button on the muse to be one of the best HID additions made... -sc > -----Original Message----- > From: Mayo, Bill [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 8:29 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Mac and Windows mix > > Actually, contextual menus have been a part of Mac OS since before they > switched over to X. If you have a one-button mouse, you simply hold the > control key when you click. > > Additionally, Mac OS X has always had a feature called "Services", which can > be invoked via a ctl/right click. Services are system wide and contextual. For > example, you can write a service that does pretty much anything with text, > and that service will show up when ctl/right click any block of text. It won't > show up if you select, for example, a graphic. Services are always contextual, > it affects a certain data type and only shows up when you have selected that > data time (including files). The only draw back to services is that they are > underutilized and not a lot of 3rd party developers write them. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
