Lukas Renggli wrote: > > ... > AFAIK, most operating systems number the mouse buttons. > > - The primary button is what you use to perform actions (typically left > mouse button). > - The secondary buttons is what you use to open context menu (typically > right mouse button). > - The third button is the middle button, the fourth button, ... > > Now I see that numbers are not that far from colors, but at least they > have a logical order. I don't like #select, #menu, #extra because I does > not make sense in any other context (for example games, or touch > applications) than a traditional GUI. >
Agree, on one side there are the physical buttons (button 1, 2, 3 etc) and on the other hand there are the events they trigger. e.g. for right-handed people button 1 would be the primary button where for left-handed this could very well be button 3. Then again, maybe it is time to look a bit further as it looks like the near future is heading towards a world without any physical buttons where there is no need to number or name buttons at all :) http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/new-apple-patent-puts-a-display-on-the-magic-mouse-20110124/ Additional gesture events: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKlkte1aOOw -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/What-about-a-little-rename-in-MouseEvent-tp3233363p3235798.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
