I am not running 8.6 yet, I am running 8.5.1 and the Mouseworks software
works fine on my Duo. However, there is a small control panel called
"dButtons" designed especially for this purpose. However, if 8.6 does not
work with MouseWorks, I am a little concerned that perhaps 8.6 has left the
Duo behind. The dual functionality of the trackball was hardware
implemented by Apple but then never officially suported by Apple (they
never did anything with it). Since the trackball was an artifact of the
68040 machines which happens to work with the 2300, and OS 8.5 orphaned the
68040 computers along with the rest of the 680xxs, 8.6 may have dropped
whatever software support was necessary to utilize the seperate trackball
buttons since no PowerPC computers have trackballs, in Apple's effort to
reduce the size of the PPC code. If so, MouseWorks may never again support
it and someone may have to rewrite the dButtons contrrol panel to implement
it under 8.6 as well. An older version of MouseWorks probably won't work
either because it would have relied on the instructions contained in the
Mac OS. Now, it will have to provide those instructions itself.
If I were you, I wouldn;t sell your used trackpad. Hang onto it so if and
when you sell your Duo, you can offer both. A lot of people really like the
trackpad for some reason. I despise them (although I really like the "tap"
feature, now if the trackball had that ...). Until touch screen technology
is perfected, the trackball will be my choice of pointer.
"John I. Clark" wrote:
> I just put a trackball retrograde in my 2300c, and am wondering if
> anyone has had any success getting the two buttons to do different
> things (i.e. control-click). The latest version of Kensington MouseWorks
> (or whatever it's called) won't do it for me, I wonder if I went back to
> an older version... Of course, I'm using OS 8.6, so it might not be
> compatible... Any other grand ideas? And, on a side note, anyone need a
> used trackpad (including top half of 2300 case)? Email me off-list with
> an offer!
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