Re: [Freemint-discuss] Mouse emulation via keyboard

[David G. <dga...@gm...>]

2018-06-07 19:38 GMT+02:00 Björn Buske <bj...@cu...>:
> Hello David,
>
> On 07.06.2018 12:04, David Gálvez wrote:
>> I'm fixing some issues with the mouse emulation through the keyboard,
>> I've seen that MiNT emulates a double left mouse button click with the
>> key combination "ALT+SHIFT+INSERT". TOS doesn't implement this. I'm
>> not sure if this is a good idea because now it's impossible to select
>> multiple files, you would do this with your mouse left clicking on the
>> objects while pressing the shift key.
>
> In TOS, you could achieve a double click by two fast consecutive hits on
> the INSERT key. That has always worked well for me.
>
>> I'm for removing the feature and imitate TOS behavior, I think the
>> original implementation is good enough and these changes at the end
>> confuse the user.
>
> Considering the above, and that the keyboard mouse is really only a last
> resort for most people, this should work well enough.
>

I've commited the changes. At the end the mouse emulation behaves like
TOS when using the left shift,
and I've left the old MiNT's double click feature when using the right
shift  (ALTERNATE+RIGHT_SHIFT+INSERT).