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Subject: Re: mouse clicks on tool-bar -- why not recognize different mouse
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>
> 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.