Re: [MACTCL] Right-click

[Cameron L. <cl...@la...>]

> From tcl...@li... Sat Apr 24 05:58:10 2004
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> Cameron - not sure if TkAqua does this for you (doesn't look like it), 
> but I think control-click is roughly equivalent to right-click from my 
> experience. You could do something like:

> bind . <Control-Button-1> [list event generate . <Button-3>]

> You might need to be a bit more clever to make sure that %x %y etc 
> stuff is correct in the new event. This makes me wonder though; would 
> it be a good rule of thumb to always bind to virtual events? That would 
> probably make this sort of thing much easier:

> event add <<RightClick>> <Button-3> <Control-Button-1>
> bind . <<RightClick>> { ... }

> A related question: I have a 3-button mouse which I use with os x. 
> However, the right mouse button gets delivered as <Button-2> and the 
> middle as <Button-3>, which is different to how most apps bind to right 
> and middle mouse button normally. I've been told that this is just a 
> misconfiguration of my mouse somewhere, but I'm not so sure - the right 
> mouse button acts correctly in every application other than Tk-based 
> ones.

> Anyone have any clues? If it is a misconfiguration - anyone know where 
> to correct it?
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It sounds as though you're saying that, yes, Mac users
are accustomed to, for example, control-click for right-
click, but Tk doesn't appear to implement that "out of
the box"; as things stand now, we developers have to
implement that for each application.