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Re: [ECS] New Mouse handling David Mccoll Mon, 1 Jun 1998 21:51:47 -0700

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I too found the mouse button assignments to be a little different. I have
not given it too too much thought as I am primarily a DOS-ECST user with an
eye out for ECSW when phone support comes on strong. Anyway here is my 3
cents worth.

It would be nice if the buttons were fully programmable as if they
themselves were items or part of the ECS.DT file where we could define
whatever we want as right/left/double-click  actions.

My own preference is to have a single left click on the item icon bring up
drop down scroll type box where you could easily select the state from with
another left click.

   E.g.: a single click on a light icon would bring up a dialog box with the
most important states ON and OFF at the top of the box, followed by the DIM
states below so you can scroll down to the level you want or simply click ON
or OFF without any scrolling. Thinkin ease of use here.

DAvid Mccoll
dmccoll@intergate.bc.ca

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Gilmore <markgilmore@cococo.net>
To: ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org <ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org>
Date: Monday, June 01, 1998 4:17 AM
Subject: Re: [ECS] New Mouse handling


>I need a consensus on this guys. Mayby a double left/right
>click to change the state, a left click to select, and
>a right click to dsp choice list ?
>
>Michael David wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mark!
>>
>> Would you PLEASE consider NOT having a mouse click on a field not change
the
>> state in that field?  It is very non-windows compliant, and REALLY pisses
>> off the wife when you accidentally click on the state of the relay for
the
>> internal siren!  The sleeping baby didn't take kindly to it either.  :(
>>
>> A more standard approach would be to have a mouse click select the field,
>> and the right button would pop up the screen with all the selections.
>>
>> At the very least, would you at least put in an environment variable to
>> disable this?  Pretty please?
>>
>> ....hell hath no fury like a wife and baby when they are really pissed
>> off.....
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Michael David
>> michael@michaeldavid.com
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>Mark Gilmore
>Omnipotence
>http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/mark_gilmore_2
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