Re: [Pipmak-Devel] mouseloc() crash: Bug in loadnode?

[Christian W. <cwa...@gm...>]

Andrea Viarengo wrote:
> Oh, I forgot that Apple mice have only 1 button...
> 
> So, you haven't Contextual menus in MacOSX ?  I have remained to 
> system7  which haven't them, but I thought  was introduced  in next OS 
> releases...

Yes, there are contextual menus on Mac OS X (they're activated using 
right-click or ctrl-click), and no, not all Apple mice have one button, 
but that's not the point. I'm a proponent of the one-button mouse not 
because I think multiple buttons are not useful, but because I think 
they are less intuitive. Grasping the concept of the multi-button mouse 
is more intellectual work than grasping the concept of the one-button 
mouse. It's a farther abstraction from the real world. In the real world 
it doesn't matter whether I push a button using my index finger or my 
middle finger.

I don't want people to make games where I have to learn about arbitrary 
mouse button assignments first (one such game that I recently played the 
demo of is Ankh), therefore Pipmak exposes a one-button-mouse interface 
to the game developer.

> Apart the absence of right mouse on Mac, do you think this type of menu 
> was a bad idea?
> I thought that menu which appear only when it need and change its 
> contents its content based on the context was less invasive respect a 
> fixed menu attached to the window or the desktop...

No, seems reasonable. I can't really judge how well it works before 
seeing it in action, and maybe comparing it to what I would have come up 
with. But as I mentioned, I don't have a very concrete vision of how 
these things are going to work. It'll grow as I go.

I'm interested in seeing what you come up with, but be assured that I 
will have my own ideas, and whether or not they will be compatible with 
yours remains to be seen...

> Have you some idea to active it without a right button

Left mouse button, when the "node background" or "selection" or whatever 
tool is selected, maybe?

  -Christian