On 4/16/2010 2:32 PM, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
> As I rethink about this I would say it is a bug.

I agree.

> I install the Windows version and the Linux version of a platform
> independent system. As I move with my data file (the image) from
> Windows to Linux the behaviour of the right mouse button changes. I
> learn from Chris that it has been like this for years. I had not
> realised this as I had been been using mainly MSWindows in the past.
>
> What can be done about it?

Two things:

1) Define that by default the RIGHT mouse button triggers the context 
menu, not the middle-mouse button / scroll wheel click. This is the 
historical reason for the difference - Windows always had 2-button mice 
and not being able to operate the context menus just because some aging 
gentlemen insisted that the middle button must operate the context menu 
was just crazy. As a consequence I changed the mapping in the Windows VM 
only. As soon as we have clarity on that we can proceed to the next step.

2) Normalize the reporting of left/middle/right button in ALL VMs, 
including Mac which is screwed up just as badly since the keyboard 
modifiers used to get to the menus do not actually do the same thing as 
the buttons that are supposedly associated with the modifiers. (I don't 
recall the details but it was something like Ctrl+Left button gets you 
to the context menu but an actual 3button mouse on Mac generates 
Opt+Left button or something along those lines).

Cheers,
   - Andreas

>
> One thing could be to do as well a one-click image for Squeak 4.1
> where the preferences are pre-set correctly.
>
> Hannes
>
> P.S. I do not see a category for the VM on mantis
> http://bugs.squeak.org/main_page.php
> And http://www.squeakvm.org/index.html has no bug reporting facility.
>
> On 4/16/10, Bert Freudenberg<bert at freudenbergs.de>  wrote:
>> On 16.04.2010, at 22:18, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
>>>
>>> How is it done? With a flag on the command line?
>>>
>>> HH
>>
>> In Windows it's an ini option.
>> In Linux, a command line option.
>>
>> - Bert -
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>>> On 4/16/10, Bert Freudenberg<bert at freudenbergs.de>  wrote:
>>>> You can configure both Windows and Linux VMs to both behaviors. No need
>>>> to
>>>> change the image.
>>>>
>>>> - Bert -
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>>>> On 16.04.2010, at 22:04, Chris Muller wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, Linux has been opposite the Windows VM for years; very annoying.
>>>>> Back when I was doing a lot of switching back and forth between
>>>>> Windows and Linux, I actually kept the "toggleMouseButtons" preference
>>>>> directly on the desktop in my images..
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Hannes Hirzel<hannes.hirzel at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Hello
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I downloaded Squeak for Unix (in my case Ubuntu 9.10) from
>>>>>> http://ftp.squeak.org/4.1/unix-linux/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Right out of the box the right mouse button brings up the halo.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You need to go to the menu 'Tools' / 'Preferences', then search for
>>>>>> 'mouse'.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then check 'swapMouseButtons'  as 'enabled'.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Otherwise the UI experience is  fine.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hannes
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