Does the Powerbook have 2 mouse buttons or one?

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I know it is a pretty retarded question. I was just wondering, altho it is one big button, does the big button below the trackpad have 2 sensors or just one?

Same goes for the standard Apple mouse. 2 buttons or one?

Thankyouz
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It only has one button. To gain the functionality of two, you could download SideTrack, which adds horizontal and vertical scrolling and optional right clicking to the touchpad.
 
One, though someone said they are pressure sensitive like the trackpad x,y, and z cordinates. Of course not much has been written for the third cordinate. The newer trackpads can actually divided into grids creating virtual buttons and or scroll space (side or up down).

The program SideTrack is a replacement driver for the trackpad (touchpad) found on Apple PowerBooks and iBooks. It brings many of the advanced trackpad features found on Windows laptops to MacOS X.

Below is a shareware program that allows for the addition of a second or third button virtually built onto your track pad(virtual grid) I use it on my ibook so I have 3 buttons and 3 scroll areas, pretty cool.

SideTrack supports these features:

Vertical scrolling at left or right edge of pad.
Horizontal scrolling at top or bottom edge of pad.
Map hardware button to left or right click.
Map trackpad taps to no action, left click, left click drag (with or without drag lock), or right click.
Map trackpad corner taps to mouse buttons 1-6 or simulated keystrokes.
Compatible with uControl, including uControl's scroll emulation.
This public beta version of SideTrack will expire on June 30, 2004.
 
moav said:
One, though someone said they are pressure sensitive like the trackpad x,y, and z cordinates. Of course not much has been written for the third cordinate. The newer trackpads can actually divided into grids creating virtual buttons and or scroll space (side or up down).

The program SideTrack is a replacement driver for the trackpad (touchpad) found on Apple PowerBooks and iBooks. It brings many of the advanced trackpad features found on Windows laptops to MacOS X.

Below is a shareware program that allows for the addition of a second or third button virtually built onto your track pad(virtual grid) I use it on my ibook so I have 3 buttons and 3 scroll areas, pretty cool.

SideTrack supports these features:

Vertical scrolling at left or right edge of pad.
Horizontal scrolling at top or bottom edge of pad.
Map hardware button to left or right click.
Map trackpad taps to no action, left click, left click drag (with or without drag lock), or right click.
Map trackpad corner taps to mouse buttons 1-6 or simulated keystrokes.
Compatible with uControl, including uControl's scroll emulation.
This public beta version of SideTrack will expire on June 30, 2004.
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I tried to use SideTrack's corner taps to trigger Expose (F9 for top left corner and F11 for top right corner of the trackpad), but it only works about 1 out of 10 taps. I've tried making the tapping area larger, but this didn't make any difference.

Is there any other way of getting SideTrack to recognise taps properly?

Kap
 
never tried Sidetrack w/ expose, i use the upper-left corner as a right click and left side edge as a scroll. If i ever use a Mac Laptop without Sidetrack, i freak out ;)
 
all apple mice are 1 button period whether on a desktop or laptop. osx does support right clicking though if you have a multi-button mouse.
 
i Have also had problem with mapping expose-commands to the corners, but everything else works perfectly. Now i cant function without the scroll at right and the right-button at lower right.

a very good application that apple should buy and bundle.
 
Convert said:
I know it is a pretty retarded question. I was just wondering, altho it is one big button, does the big button below the trackpad have 2 sensors or just one?

Same goes for the standard Apple mouse. 2 buttons or one?

Thankyouz
::love::
(Don't ask why I did the love thang)
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I just noticed that it says in your signature you have a powerbook. how can you not know if you own and use one?

put down the crack pipe ;)
 
Lmao I'm new to macs, totally.

I realise the Right Click menu found on Windows is essentially the top bar in Mac OS X, but I've heard of people using right clicks on macs...
 
yeah, those that does not install thirdparty freeware or connect a two-button mouse to their computer use control-click (hold down ctrl and then the trackpad-button acts as a rightclick).
 
I have a 2 button logitech trackball with 2 additional buttons for scrolling. the right click works very similar to windows and I don't have to press the control key for it to work. very cool.

logitech marble mouse works 100% perfect with osx. after using it or about 1 week I was hooked and have never touched a normal mouse since. its more similar to a trackpad but still totally has its own feel. its optical also. very accurate.

no I don't work for logitech :) I just want to spread the word about this awesome mouse. like 20-30 bucks.
 

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Convert said:
Lmao I'm new to macs, totally.

I realise the Right Click menu found on Windows is essentially the top bar in Mac OS X, but I've heard of people using right clicks on macs...
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Right clicks are called Contextual Menus. You can add some you find from VersionTracker or MacUpdate.
 
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