Right mouse button on Mac

[teletubo]

Right now I'm deciding which key the player should hold to move the camera . I was thinking about CTRL, but I've read the Ctrl + click means right click in Mac computers . I don't want the camera to move like crazy when a mac user uses the right click .

So I've found some information, but some say it's Ctrl+click, others Shift+click and Mac+click . Which one is interpreted by java as a right click ?

Thanks .

[lhkbob]

Mac uses ctrl + click as right click, although the last time I was doing mouse stuff on a Mac in Java, I remember that Java didn't translate ctrl + left click as a right click but instead sent it as a left click event and a ctrl key event.

If what I remember is correct (and hasn't changed), then you can still do ctrl to move the camera.  But then you get into the issue of what happens if they want to do the right click for some other action and think that ctrl click will work? Or think that by ctrl-clicking, you're really having them right click? 

The new track pads support two fingers on the pad when clicking to generate a right click as well, and the actual mice have two button support.  I'm not sure if any of this helps but its some extra information to think about.

[ra4king]

This is another reason why I hate Macs

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[Mr. Gol]

You could just use control-click on Windows and Linux and alt-click on Mac...

[lhkbob]

Or use Command-clock for Mac since the command key is the usual replacement for control in most shortcuts (cmd + c instead of ctrl + c, etc).

[teletubo]

Actually I don't need a "Ctrl+Click" . The way it works now, when the player holds Control, it will enter the "camera moving" mode . When the player releases it, it leaves the camera mode .
On the other hand I need the right click to use items (while the left one is for actions in general) . I'm worried about the situation when the player needs to use an item , then he holds ctrl (to perform the "right click") and the camera start moving .

Well anyway thanks for your information . But I think I'll just leave it the way it is now, and probably in a week or so I'll put up a test version here in JGO, and let's see what the mac users (?) say .

[namrog84]

Anyone know why Mac's havent fully adopted "Right clicking"?

I feel its such a missing fundamental. I know you can plug in a 2 button mouse and it works fine. But why does stock mac's not have it?
(Only reason I can find is that it's Mac's desire to be "simple" and "user friendly")

[lhkbob]

I think the original reason was to be simple and to be different.  But now all the mice you get from Apple are two button. It's only the laptops that don't have two buttons, but they have such nice multi-touch trackpad support that I really don't miss it.

[Z-Man]

Anyone know why Mac's haven't fully adopted "Right clicking"?

I feel its such a missing fundamental. I know you can plug in a 2 button mouse and it works fine. But why does stock mac's not have it?
(Only reason I can find is that it's Mac's desire to be "simple" and "user friendly")

I am currently using a MacBook from 2007 and like others have said you can just use the two fingers on the mouse pad click to right click things. This is a fully supported OS feature and works everywhere. So stock Macs do in fact have right clicking built in, there simply isn't two different buttons for it. It takes some getting use to if your switching to the multi-touch method but after a while it's just natural... Or you can do what I do and have a bluetooth mouse