ShakespeareGeek
May 31st, 2009, 10:57 PM
I'm not a Mac guy by trade, so I'm hoping this seemingly simple question has a simple answer. I've got a Mini hooked up to my television to act as a media center for the fam. Meanwhile I VNC into it from my Windows laptop and teach myself iPhone development with XCode and Interface Builder.
Here's my problem - every tutorial in Interface Builder says, "Hold down control, and drag a line from this box to that box over there." And no combination of anything I do seems to let that happen in my VNC window. I know it works, because if I sit directly at my television with a wired keyboard/mouse combo I can do it fine. But through the VNC window, it's as if I'm not hitting anything. I can right-click the mouse and bring up a popup (which I do not fully understand), and I can click and drag one of those little + signs and create a line to another object. But I cannot "control mouse drag".
I do notice that "control click" overlaps with "right click", but I don't know how universal that rule is. I didn't see any tutorials saying to right-click in IB, only to control-click.
I'm desperate to either understand what this control mouse event does so I can simulate it, or figure out what keys I need to hit in order to make it happen, because without it I can't meaningfully do development through this VNC window :(
Here's my problem - every tutorial in Interface Builder says, "Hold down control, and drag a line from this box to that box over there." And no combination of anything I do seems to let that happen in my VNC window. I know it works, because if I sit directly at my television with a wired keyboard/mouse combo I can do it fine. But through the VNC window, it's as if I'm not hitting anything. I can right-click the mouse and bring up a popup (which I do not fully understand), and I can click and drag one of those little + signs and create a line to another object. But I cannot "control mouse drag".
I do notice that "control click" overlaps with "right click", but I don't know how universal that rule is. I didn't see any tutorials saying to right-click in IB, only to control-click.
I'm desperate to either understand what this control mouse event does so I can simulate it, or figure out what keys I need to hit in order to make it happen, because without it I can't meaningfully do development through this VNC window :(