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[Jonathan N. Little]

dorayme wrote:

On a mac at least, one can modify the action of the mouse in various ways. I
have mentioned the time based contextual menu that pops up next to the
arrow. There are also modifier keys, pressing command on the keyboard allows
scrolling by simply moving the mouse up and down (a hand appears as in
Illustrator for positioning the canvas...). And so on... It is a different
way of doing things using the features that already exist and are quite - er
um... - handy like the keyboard.

Oh there are still modifier keys...Shift+Left Btn + up/down mouse move
scales brushes ALT/CTRL+Left Btn temp swap additive or subtractive masks
Scroll wheel zooms in and out and do multiple things at once.... can be
quite efficient

Each to his own of course but it suits me because too much mouse work gives
me problems with my hands, wrists, tendons ... the less and simpler to do
with a mouse the better...


dorayme

As an artist, spend a lot of time with a mouse, not had a problem with
my wrists and hands. I find small mice cramp the hand. Got a tablet but
I never really liked it, not a very good one so it is probably not fair
to to judge it with real tablets....

 

[Evert | Collab]

From: Evert | Collab <[email protected]> Organization: MCI Canada News
Reader Service Newsgroups: alt.html Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 18:39:04 -0400
Subject: Re: Links

But, Blinky, one button mice can be nice. Even better is the no button one -
like the Apple Pro USB white/clear one.

?

Seems as a kinda weird statement.. how can you ever be more efficient with one
hand, than if you would train your vingers [remember why they put more than 1
key on the keyboard, same principal; but more extreme ]

Just another thought about your perplexity: I don't think you realise just
how weird is the statement. The full extent of its weirdness has to do with
what might be called The Zen of Mousing (the title, as it happens, of a
forthcoming book of mine).

dorayme

Burn the witch!!! =)

Oh well, I guess everybody has their personal favorite..

take care,
Evert