Here is a squeak wiki post about colored mouse buttons: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/897
And the part that says "The Smalltalk image from which Squeak is derived was designed to run with a three-button mouse on an Alto or Dorado computer. These buttons were known as the Red button<http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1904>, Yellow button <http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1905>, and Blue button<http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1906>, and some mice on the Parc computers really had buttons of these colors." allows me to think that originally, the buttons were named just like the hardware :). So calling them left, right and middle... Is right the same but more meaningful. Another classification there puts them as: red:primaryyellow:secondaryblue:meta, tertiary So we could call them primary, secondary and (tertiary or meta). I like it :). Cheers, Guille On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Nicolas Cellier < [email protected]> wrote: > Sorry Fernando, > The question is can we remove a level of indirection ? > And to answer this, you have to consider these other questions: > - what was the purpose of this level of indirection ? > - do we still need it or not ? > I don't feel like your yes/no answer is satisfying, please give more > ellaborated arguments. > > Nicolas > > 2011/1/24 Fernando Olivero <[email protected]>: > > I agree with the original proposal, because MouseEvents denote the > > physical action performed by the user on the hardware, which evidently > > has a left, a middle and a right section. Regardless of the action > > Morphic associates with each click, #select, #menu, etc... > > > > Fernando > > > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> On 24 Jan 2011, at 08:25, Marcus Denker wrote: > >> > >>> On Jan 24, 2011, at 5:39 AM, Guillermo Polito wrote: > >>> > >>>> I hate yellowButtonPressed and redButtonPressed and blueButtonPressed > messages. > >>>> > >>>> Why not lefClick, rightClick and "middleClick"? > >>>> > >>> > >>> Yes. > >>> > >>> Back in the days, the color buttons where "holy cows". You just could > not even suggest to > >>> change it. > >>> > >>> For me, after 13 years of Squeak and later Pharo, I still have no clue > which color means what... > >>> they have no meaning. There is no green button on my mouse. > >>> > >>> Marcus > >> > >> #select, #menu and #extra ? > >> > >> Then again, touch UI is different again. > >> > >> Sven > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > >
