Donna Hood Pointer writes, <Have you tried positioning the arrow using only one finger on the trackpad and then leaving the arrow there and clicking? I use my right thumb to click and hold and then my right index finger to drag, sometimes using strokes.>
You mean to click with the trackpad? No. I click with the clicker which lives immediately below-in front of the track pad. No need to click with a trackpad here. I don't know why THIS should be "the finger" I feel most physically comfortable using ;-) but I came to discover early in my first trackpad days that my right middle finger, yes, that one, on the trackpad gives me the best I can get in terms of both speed and accuracy. <But for accurate positioning of the arrow point, simply moving the arrow wherever you want it and then leaving it there (it will not move) gives me great accuracy>. Getting the arrow where I want it is easier than the cursor, yes. But since my Powerbook's primary duty is word processing, I also have to get to very precise positions. Yes, by now I can do this well enough with my trackpad and I don't ever pack a mouse in my Powerbook's carrybag when getting ready to go out, but I do have to admit that when I'm doing the same thing at home on my G3 with the mouse, I'm much more adept at it with the mouse. <Have you ever tried to deal with a skittering Mocrosoft mouse in Windows?> No. I don't do Windoze. ;-) <Any Mac trackpad has that beaten by a mile.> I'm sure!! :-) <On my older desktops I used to use a plug-in trackpad. and I have also used trackballs.> One time, a LONG time ago (1991 or 92 I think), I was at someone else's house and used his computer. He had a trackball. An awful experience for me! I'd never outfit any computer of mine with one of those things (my apologies to those of you who've replied to this thread and praised trackballs!), and I wouldn't buy a laptop with a trackball as compared to a trackpad either. Kind of like cars, almost. I drive cars with automatic transmission. I don't care how old and what a beater of a car it is otherwise, the only requirement for me is auto trans. Up until recently even the idea of learning HOW to drive a car with a stick shift was "out, out, out!" because the thought of it scared me to death. I'd be willing to at least learn stick now, but I still don't think I'd ever buy a car like that, at least not for so long as I live in one of the Heavy Traffic/Jerks On The Road Capital States of the USA. Equate the auto trans with the trackpad, the stick shift with the trackball. ~Yersinia. -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
