Exactly : logicalRight can be different than physicalRight. If you tell me this distinction is useless, then I'll ask you to consider touch screen and other modern input devices. That's why I ask this community to reformulate and think.
Then you'll can argue at will whether the logical level shall be named #right #logicalRight or #blue, I don't care. For newer kind of events (gestures), we have a more difficult dilemna: emulate the feel or use native OS facilities... The question is of same nature as native look. Even if we choose to rely on OS, we have to think of cross platform portability and ways to emulate missing capabilities. In other words, I doubt we can afford the elimination of a level of indirection. Maybe it's time to refactor indeed, but please, bring up your brain one level above this colour naming battle. Don't replay battles of the past, turn toward the future. Nicolas 2011/1/24 Geert Claes <geert.wl.cl...@gmail.com>: > > > Guillermo Polito wrote: >> >> I hate yellowButtonPressed and redButtonPressed and blueButtonPressed >> messages. >> >> Why not lefClick, rightClick and "middleClick"? >> > > I agree that the meaning of the colors is no longer useful, although "hate" > is maybe a bit harsh :) > > Surely this has already been addressed in other environments? > http://api.jquery.com/mousedown api.jquery.com/mousedown for example also > refers to the left, middle and right button. > > Even Apple's multi-touch "magic-mouse" talks about left and right-clicks > (which is ironic as they have long resisted to even add a second button) ... > but also mouse events for the "360° scroll", "Screen zoom" and "two-finger > swipe". > -- > View this message in context: > http://forum.world.st/What-about-a-little-rename-in-MouseEvent-tp3233363p3233916.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
