From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: mouse clicks on tool-bar -- why not recognize different mouse buttons?
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 08:13:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <62E1B4CA-1E71-11D9-8E1A-000D93505B76@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MEEKKIABFKKDFJMPIOEBGEOECGAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
>
> However, since a tool-bar item is just a graphic (not a specific name,
> like
> a menu item), why not treat tool-bar items more like we treat portions
> of
> the mode-line: why not recognize different mouse button events on
> tool-bar
> items? Why not, say, be able to have mouse-3 on a given tool-bar
> button do
> something different from mouse-1 on the same item?
No other application I know of does this. Emacs is already very
different
from standard GUI applications, and adding more Emacs specific GUI
things
will only make it harder to port to current and future toolkits. Also,
what
kind of operations do you have in mind?
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-15 6:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-15 6:03 mouse clicks on tool-bar -- why not recognize different mouse buttons? Drew Adams
2004-10-15 6:13 ` Jan D. [this message]
2004-10-15 7:02 ` Miguel Frasson
2004-10-15 7:50 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2004-10-15 12:22 ` Richard Stallman
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