BTW, "Meta" is another name I would like to get rid of :P. Guille
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Guillermo Polito <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> >> >
