28 Sep
2010
28 Sep
'10
7:55 a.m.
On 28 September 2010 08:18, Joost van de Griek <gyorpb at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sep 27, 2010, at 21:20, Liam Proven wrote:
Weird. I've Googled this and in essence, you're right.
I'm not saying it's weird you're right! I'm saying it seems a weird
way to do it, to me. 2 microswitches would have been easier than a
single one and a sensor to tell where your finger is. This might
explain why I never liked using the Mighty Mouse much.
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The preceding model, the Mighty Mouse, actually
has 2 microswitches
beneath the shell. Although there is no visible division on the
surface of the mouse, as well as scrolling both vertically and
horizontally with the tiny trackball, you can also left-click,
right-click and squeeze it & it detects all separately.
I don't like it - I prefer more obvious, tactile buttons; it used to
amuse me to use a MICROS~1 mouse on my Mac - but the Mighty Mouse
/did/ support 3 or 4 button actions. The Magic Mouse, while much
simpler, doesn't - but its multitouch surface does allow gestures to
perform most of these actions.
The Magic Mouse works exactly the same as the Mighty Mouse when it comes to
clicking: there's a single switch for detecting the clicking motion, then
there's a capacitive surface that detects where your fingers are on the
mouse surface and interprets the click as a left or right click,
accordingly.