Re: [Jmol-users] Mac mouse gesture -- rotate Z

[Miguel <mi...@jm...>]

> On 2005-07-20 (16:39) Miguel wrote:
>
>>>Rotate around Z - shift and drag horizontally works with left (main)
>>>button but not with right (secondary) button. Can other Mac users
>>>confirm this?
>>
>>You are talking about 'shift-right-drag' ... correct?
>>
>>I find it hard to believe that this does not work.
>>
>>Apple has bugs with their Java when dealing with multi-button mice,
>>but not anything this basic.
>>
>
> shift-right-drag does nothing in Jmol 10.00.16 on OSX 10.4.2.  but I am=

> not surprised;

Well shame on Apple. That is *another* bug in their mouse handling.

They are supposed to be sending all mouse events directly to Java
MouseListeners ... but they have missed the target once again.

I wrote a simple program and submitted it to them once before ... I'll
have to find it and and resubmit it.

> IIRC, shift-left-drag is supposed to do double-duty (on Mac
> at least): zoom and z-rot.

This is true ... and it continues to work.

> this was by design (I can't recall why just
> now) and has been true for quite a while.  at least, that is my
> recollection.

It was done to support those with single-button mice.


Miguel