[vtkusers] Re: How to interact under Mac os x?

Yan Pingkun pingkun at ieee.org
Mon Nov 29 07:09:33 EST 2004


Hi Daniel,

Thank you for your reply! But I may not get a 3 button mouse in the 
near future. I will find out the emulation ways.

Rgds,
Pingkun

On 29-Nov-04, at PM 05:11, Dr. Daniel James White PhD wrote:

> Hi Yan,
>
> apple X11 and XFree86 will allow emulation of 3 button  mice, using 
> modifier keys.
> look in preference on apple X11
>
> but by far the best solution is to buy a 3 button usb mouse!
> It will just work. I still dont know why apple dont sell macs with a 3 
> button mouse option!
> I find in OSX aqua VTK builds using tkinter in a the mayavi GUI (not 
> X11) the 2nd and 3rd buttons are reversed, no big deal though.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
>
>
> On 26 Nov 2004, at 19:00, vtkusers-request at vtk.org wrote:
>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:59:25 +0800
>> From: Yan Pingkun <pingkun at ieee.org>
>> Subject: [vtkusers] How to interact under Mac os x?
>> To: vtkusers at vtk.org
>> Message-ID: <B51612B0-3F78-11D9-9819-000D9357260A at ieee.org>
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>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just shift to a Mac and run my programs previously developed under
>> MSVC. Thanks to the platform independent property of VTK, my codes 
>> work
>> fine here. My problem is I don't know how to interact with the window
>> just as under Windows, because there is only one key in my mouse. I
>> also try to input by keyboard, but it doesn't work. In addition, will
>> the trackball interaction style be better than the default style?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Rgds,
>> Pingkun
> Dr. Daniel James White BSc. (Hons.) PhD
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