Re: FLASH: Right Click on a Mac = Ctrl Click!!! for Flash that's ease of use?

[Frederico]

On 9/16/1999 7:53 AM, Jeff Sibley via

jsibearthlink [dot] net

, said:


>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.


You're talking about a workstation v. playstation. I agree with that. 


I do not, nor will I ever agree that teaching a child, an elderly adult, 

or a physically disabled person to use a *learning* station is better 

with a two or three or four button mouse. As a volunteer teacher, 

educating in the use of mutiple platforms I tell you with long experience 

this is  not the case, in fact, the two button mouse *hinders* the 

learning process greatly. It is simply one more overload factor to novice 

to remember right click this, middle click that, left click here, but not 

there, blah blah blah. . .


Once (if ever) a user is proficient with knowing how to navigate the 

interface and just use a mouse at all, we quickly move them onto 

multi-button input devices for actual productivity.


On the subject of fighter pilots, all buttons in one place, et al, I, 

personally, hate mice and trackballs of any kind. Give me a custom 

keyboard with programmable function keys and a flying mouse anyday; FM 

attaches to your finger, has gyro to determine location, your 

fingers/hand never leaves the keyboard, much like the laser-eye targeting 

systems in modern warbirds. Add to that a drawing tablet, and I rarely 

use even a trackball anymore, but do attach several programmable 

muti-button devices just to get the programmable keys.


Regards


Frederico


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people with access to the most sophisticated technology in the world, who 

everyone calls on to get the really tough jobs done quickly and 

efficiently.~


                 ----R. Welch, CEO, General Motors


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