On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Russ Cox <r...@swtch.com> wrote: > > I am planning to play with an Apple Magic Mouse > > using Paul Lalonde's patch (soon to be in p9p). > > Paul's code is now in p9p. Because the code can read > where your finger is on the mouse when you click, it can > pretend there are three different buttons when in fact > there's just one. Chording works too, and it's all very natural. > It's quite elegant actually. Kudos to Paul. I hope that the > code will let one use the new clickable laptop trackpads as > 3-button mice too, but I haven't tried that. >
In fact it has made the trackpad unusable for me as I can't highlight anything with a click of any kind at this point. Now if you have a mac multi-touch laptop, you're going to have get an external mouse. > > However, if you have any tendency toward repetitive strain injuries, > you might want to avoid the Magic Mouse: not being able to touch > the mouse with the non-clicking fingers means a less relaxing grip, > especially when pretending its tiny surface has three buttons. > After maybe four hours of use, my wrist had started to hurt. > > (I had a bad desk twelve years ago that hurt my wrists, and > now they're sensitive to this kind of thing. But I'm not the only > one - http://boingboing.net/2009/12/03/magic-mouse.html - and > presumably that guy wasn't using 3 buttons or chording.) > > Back to the Evoluents for me. > I'm back to using trackballs :-) . And I guess I either have to fix this problem with the trackpad myself or wait for a fix or use an external pointing device. Dave > > Russ > >
