Comments on: Tap + Click = Two mouse buttons on a Mac trackpad? http://decafbad.com/blog/2003/07/22/two-track-buttons It's all spinning wheels and self-doubt until the first pot of coffee. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:11:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8-bleeding-edge hourly 1 By: Martin Atkins http://decafbad.com/blog/2003/07/22/two-track-buttons/comment-page-1#comment-956 Martin Atkins Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=446#comment-956 <p>I imagine having the left button only available from tapping would make dragging operations tricky. My touchpad (on a PC) has a tap-and-drag feature but I'm pretty hit-and-miss on successfully performing the maneuver and have it disabled because I'm always accidentally triggering it. Do Macs do tap-and-drag too?</p> <p>I guess Macs don't have a "right-click drag" maneuver as Windows does, so the tap could be the right button, but that would just freak me out.</p> <p>My touchpad driver has a feature where it picks up a finger moving up and down the right edge and scrolls in response, which I think is much nicer than using a scrollwheel on a mouse. I keep doing it on my friend's iBook and wondering why it isn't working :)</p> I imagine having the left button only available from tapping would make dragging operations tricky. My touchpad (on a PC) has a tap-and-drag feature but I’m pretty hit-and-miss on successfully performing the maneuver and have it disabled because I’m always accidentally triggering it. Do Macs do tap-and-drag too?

I guess Macs don’t have a “right-click drag” maneuver as Windows does, so the tap could be the right button, but that would just freak me out.

My touchpad driver has a feature where it picks up a finger moving up and down the right edge and scrolls in response, which I think is much nicer than using a scrollwheel on a mouse. I keep doing it on my friend’s iBook and wondering why it isn’t working :)

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