On Mon, Jun 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM Jeremy Wood <micklen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can’t speak to the Apple Magic Mouse specifically, but at my old job we > wrote a work-around > <https://github.com/mickleness/pumpernickel/blob/master/src/main/java/com/pump/awt/ClickSensitivityControl.java> > for a very similar-sounding complaint: we received MOUSE_PRESSED and > MOUSE_RELEASED events just fine, but we didn’t receive MOUSE_CLICKED events > unless the mouse location stayed exactly the same. > Right; that seems to be what happens in every platform-specific AWT machinery in the JDK except the XWindows one, to my naïve reading, which "solves" the issue by saying, well, if the mouse didn't move more than {checks notes} four pixels (the "smudge factor"), we're good. On the Mac with its built-in trackpad (and maybe with wired external mice, or others) this hack doesn't appear to be necessary, but I wonder if the Magic Mouse is exhibiting the same sort of behavior that originally led the XWindows-specific JDK machinery author to introduce the four-pixel "smudge factor" for that platform. Perhaps it should be introduced for the Mac as well. L
