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To: nommedeguerre who wrote (16874)	1/29/1998 9:51:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Read Replies (1) of 24154

My guess is that a major application might provide the ability to use the multi-button mouse if it is available. As far as user-implemented scripts or events, I have noticed that in VirtualPC you can use the Shift-click to emulate the right mouse button. A simple script might take the multi-button mouse driver event for the second button and translate this to the Shift-click required by VirtualPC. I still don't see how it is possible for 2nd mouse button support for a context-sensitive menu is possible unless if supported within the application itself. Since Mac software is written with only 1 mouse button in mind, I don't see how it is possible. For one thing, there would have to be some sort of event type that the application can pick up that indicates not only that the mouse button was pressed, but at what pixel position, then the pixel position would need to be somehow translated to what object is exposed at that position, and then it would need to translate this into some sort of method call on an object. Even assuming that this problem is solved, this must be written into the application and cannot be scripted or mapped from outside.

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