Using two mouse buttons

Roger Eller roger.e.eller at sealedair.com
Sun May 6 20:47:14 EDT 2012


On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Paul D. DeRocco wrote:

> Still using Rev 3.5 under WinXP.
>
> When I press the left and right mouse buttons at the same time, the only
> events I get are MouseDown for the one first pressed, and MouseUp for the
> first one released. It doesn't matter if I do it slowly or quickly. I've
> tried handling all documented mouse button events at the card level, to no
> avail. I'm using a Microsoft mouse with their latest driver, everything set
> to defaults. If I plug in a Logitech mouse, with no Logitech driver, I get
> the same result.
>
> Has anyone seen this behavior? Or more to the point, has anyone managed to
> get both buttons to work concurrently?
>
> --
>
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco at ix.netcom.com


Have you tried "on mouseUp 3"?

* 1 is the mouse button on Mac OS systems and the left button on Windows
and Unix systems.
* 2 is the middle button on Unix systems.
* 3 is the right button (on Windows and Unix systems) or Control-click (on
Mac OS and OS X systems.

~Roger



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