Have you thought of changing your mouse's System Preferences settings to execute a script that does what you want? It appears you should be able to use the side-buttons on a Mighty Mouse to do what you want. Otherwise, I'd contact the manufacturer of your three-button mouse and let them know of your need. Trying to do this in the manner you're describing sounds rife with headaches.
On 01/06/2011 9:00 AM, "Peter Watkins" <watki...@gmail.com> wrote: >Hi Graham, > >On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote: > >> >> On 05/01/2011, at 3:04 AM, Peter Watkins wrote: >> >> This is what I'm really trying to achieve, "I'm writing an app that lets >> the user select text in one program and paste it into another by >> middle-clicking the mouse button." >> >> >> >> But why? >> > A couple reasons: >1) It's actually faster than Cmd-C, Cmd-V: You can do the entire >copy-paste >without using the keyboard. >2) Most UNIX users are used to copying and pasting this way (using the >selection buffer). The copy-paste buffer still exists on UNIX, but most >users don't use it. > >There is a perfectly reasonable standard way to cut and paste in a way >that >> works in virtually all apps that users are well used to. This is >> non-standard, non-intuitive and difficult to implement 'solution' to a >> problem that doesn't appear to exist. That's why it's hard to implement, >> because it's not (on the face of it) very sensible. >> >This is correct for almost every Mac user. However there's a small segment >of Mac users that come from a Linux/Sun/BSD background, and they really >like >the middle-click paste. They like it so much, in fact, that I've heard of >some users switching to a Mac and then switching back to *NIX because the >Mac doesn't have middle-click paste. > > >> Also, not all mouses (mice?) have a middle button. The standard current >> Apple Wireless Mouse for example, does not. >> >True, and it drives me up the wall. I got an Apple Magic Mouse and used it >for awhile, but I switched back to my old Mighty Mouse because the Magic >Mouse doesn't have a middle-click. I use the middle-click paste all the >time >when I log into work (my company's software only runs on *NIX) from my >Mac. > >So, I still think a separate program that provides a selection buffer with >middle-click paste is just the thing for *NIX users switching to a Mac. > >-Peter >_______________________________________________ > >Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > >Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > >Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/garywade%40desisoftsystem >s.com > >This email sent to garyw...@desisoftsystems.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
