Re: GNUstep Weekly Editorial 08-03-2002

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 10:06 AM, Dietmar Planitzer wrote:

> > From: dennis@made-it.com
> > Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 04:11:09 +0100
> >
> >
> > Richard made the gnustep-xgps Middle mouse button code compliend with
> > that from MacOS X and wondered why the Mac OS guys and girls didn't
> > use the GNUstep naming scheme, just for compatibility sake.
>
>
> Well, simply because the -otherMouseXXX events are not limited to just 
> the
> middle mouse button, rather they are sent for anyone of 32 possible 
> mouse
> buttons (except the right & left mouse buttons which have there own 
> events).

Same functional api .. slightly different names ...
We used 'middle' to refer to the mouse buttons between the left and 
right extremes,
Apple used 'other'

I guess their name makes more sense if we assume that the 'right' mouse 
button may in
fact not be the rightmost button on the mouse, and the 'left' mouse 
button may not be
the leftmost button on the mouse.  In this case, 'other' makes more 
sense than 'middle'
to refer to a button which does not lie between the 'left' and 'right'.

However, I think we should try to ensure that, for all GNUstep backends, 
the 'right'
and 'left' mouse button events *do* refer to the rightmost and leftmost 
buttons on
the mouse, as I think anything else is somewhat counter-intuitive.