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Contextual menu activation
Authored by: UltraNurd on Dec 16, '02 12:32:47PM

Sorry for any confusion I may have caused (which I seriously doubt occurred). As fun as it is to be contrarian :oP, right-click means "bring up a contextual menu" on the windows, unix, and macs I use on a regular basis, and is generally true across multiple operating system versions/configurations for each, which is why I used that term. It's the most common, shortest way to say it.

When Apple announced the Pro Mice a few years ago, I was hopeful that they would finally cave and go for two buttons + scroll wheel. I've always been a proponent of the simplicity of the mac, but since contextual menus have been rather key since for sure OS 9, I think it's silly to ignore the hardware end of that particular user interface standard. Scroll wheels are also great. I know very few mac-users who stick to the one-button mice, except for public area computers at various educational institutions, probably because there are fewer parts to break.



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