Re: FLASH: Right Click on a Mac = Ctrl Click!!! for Flash that's WRONG!

[Jeff Sibley]

> Frederico wrote:

>

> >

> > God forbid we give Apple any credit for making the machine easier to use

> > with one button and modifer keys, which kids and novice adults,

> > left-handed and right-handed users alike, can and do learn with more ease

> > and speed, and that many, many average consumers *prefer* one button

> > mice, and despite the fact that when a user *wants* more buttons, they

> > can *easily* buy and install them, or wants less buttons, they can have

> > that too, and surely it is of no use to any Pro that you can daisy-chain

> > on ten or more ADB mice/input devices and they all *JUST WORK* without

> > ten hours of driver and config nightmares.

> >

>


1)   I am a mac user I have to disagree, using one hand is always easier

than two. In a fighter jet all the important buttons a on the joy stick not

the instrument panel because this allows the pilot to focus on his work, not

the instrument panel. Since I have started using a programmable right click

trackball, I have found out what Window user have always known --- right

clicking is one of the most efficient computer work flows there is.


2)   As you said "driver and config nightmares" of 3rd party suppliers do

not contribute to the Mac's plug and play ease which is why

Apple needs to standardize their mouse with the Windows right click button.

Until this happens Software companies like Macromedia will continue to screw

up the flow of their interface by trying to incorporate the contextual menu

in half thought out schemes (to see what I mean try selecting a frame in the

Flash timeline than immediately hit control click to bring up the Contextual

menu and you will get the Frame Properties dialog box, not the Contextual

menu)



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