The deskguide applet has a special action for the middle button. Maybe
you could look at that code.
James.
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On 3 Nov 1999, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> [ Please note that button2 is the *middle* button, not the right mouse
> button. Your question seems to imply that you think I want to
> change the behaviour of right-click, which I don't. ]
>
> Edward Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 1) What do you want to do on the button 2 click?
>
> I'm writing an applet that you can drag URLs from netscape into, and
> it then calls Wget in a separate window. You can have several such
> windows, control them in various ways, etc. When you left-click on
> the applet, it asks you to enter the URL in a dialog box.
>
> I want button2 to do what it does in netscape. For those who don't
> know, in that case netscape will fetch the primary selection (if
> any), and go to that location. For me, that is a less known but
> incredibly useful feature that I want to copy.
>
> > The reason why I ask this is that most of us have probably become
> > accustomed to what happens when we right click on an applet, we get
> > the standard applet menu plus any menu items the developer wanted to
> > add to it.
>
> Right-click will work as before -- I don't intend to muck with it,
> apart from adding my own menu callbacks, as is usual for applets.
>
> If you really want to use my applet, and if you really want button2 to
> move it, I can add a way to disable the netscape-like feature, or move
> it to Sh-button1 or something.
>
> Additionally, it would be Really Really Nice if we could distinguish
> between a button2 *click* and a button2 *drag*, and assign them to
> different actions. A click could do as described above, while a drag
> could invoke the usual button2 drag.
>
> I deleted your second question because of the button2 confusion. This
> is not Windows. :-)
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