[kepler-dev] right-click on Mac

[Xiaowen Xin]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the pointer.

Now you've given me motivation to install 4.0 as soon as I possibly can
=)

The only Mac I come in contact with is the one sitting on the desk of
our customer for SPA, so I won't get much of an opportunity to play with
it.  Since this release could mean an improved UI for him, I'll try
installing it on his desktop alongside the 3.02 install and see how that
goes.

Xiaowen

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 09:04, Stephen Andrew Neuendorffer wrote:
> If you are interested in experimenting, the code is in 
> ptolemy/vergil/actor/ActorEditorGraphController.java:
> I think the command key is open-apple???
> 
>          // Create listeners that creates new relations.
>          _relationCreator = new RelationCreator();
>          if (UIManager.getLookAndFeel().getName().startsWith("MacOS")) {
>              // On the Mac, do not override Control-Click, which is
>              // used to bring up the context menu
>              _relationCreator.setMouseFilter(_metaFilter);
>          } else {
>              _relationCreator.setMouseFilter(_controlFilter);
>          }
> 
>          pane.getBackgroundEventLayer().addInteractor(_relationCreator);
>          // Note that shift-click is already bound to the dragSelection
>          // interactor when adding things to a selection.
> 
>          // Create the interactor that drags new edges.
>          _linkCreator = new LinkCreator();
>          if (UIManager.getLookAndFeel().getName().startsWith("MacOS")) {
>              // On the Mac, do not override Control-Click, which is
>              // used to bring up the context menu
>              _linkCreator.setMouseFilter(_metaFilter);
>          } else {
>              _linkCreator.setMouseFilter(_controlFilter);
>          }
> 
>      /** The filter for meta-click operations.  Under Mac OS X,
>       *  the command key is the meta key, or keycode 0x2318
>       *  For details, see the Apple java archive
>       *  http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev
>       *  User: archives, passwd: archives
>       */
>      private MouseFilter _metaFilter = new MouseFilter(
>              InputEvent.BUTTON1_MASK,
>              InputEvent.META_MASK);
> 
> 
> At 08:59 AM 4/28/2004, Stephen Andrew Neuendorffer wrote:
> >At 01:49 PM 4/27/2004, Xiaowen Xin wrote:
> >>Hi Christopher,
> >>
> >>I see what you mean.  Thanks for the explanation!
> >>
> >>I just noticed that shift-click works for creating a connection between
> >>an external port and a relation.  Have you tried it?
> >
> >We tried this in 3.0... it turns out to not work sell because shift-click is
> >used for other things as well.
> >
> >
> >>If it's identical in functionality to control-click, then we could have
> >>control-click bring up the context menu on Macs.
> >
> >In 4.0, there is code in vergil to bind meta-click (open-apple, I believe) to
> >create connections instead of control-click.  This should work, but hasn't 
> >been
> >heavily tested... It would be helpful if you could try this in practice 
> >and see if you
> >run into difficulties.
> >
> >Steve
> >
> >
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