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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Study" data-source="post: 394916" data-attributes="member: 3889"><p>Most mice, if not all, are supported, so any mouse with right click should work as soon as you make the required connection.</p><p></p><p>At the dawn of time, Macintosh did not include the right-click capability. Its mice were single button. The right-click menus were accessed by holding down the Control key — the outside key in the triple lineup — while clicking with the single button. This choice remains.</p><p></p><p>However, the no-right-click restriction disappeared a decade or more ago. But the collective memory gave birth to the myth that Macs still can't right click, and this myth won't die because of its value as fodder for the FUD<strong>*</strong> machine, even with Apple's laptop trackpads providing two-finger-tap right clicks.</p><p></p><p>Apple's one-button philosophy wasn't born of ignorance or stupidity. Outside the hallowed halls of Xerox's labs, computer mice were an unknown. Apple's overriding philosophy was and still is Keep It Simple, and at the time, a single button made a ton of sense. There were no other computers — for the mass market, anyway — using mice. Everything was command-line.</p><p></p><p>Somewhere on a CD I have an Apple tutorial (complete with drawings — wow!) on how to use a mouse. Now it's as quaint as the "How To Use a Dial Phone" movies you can stream or download at the Internet Archive. </p><p></p><p>So now there are three right-click choices: a multi-button mouse, a left click while holding down the Control key and the two-finger tap on the trackpad.</p><p></p><p><strong>*</strong>FUD: Fear, uncertainty and doubt, anti-Apple propaganda.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Study, post: 394916, member: 3889"] Most mice, if not all, are supported, so any mouse with right click should work as soon as you make the required connection. At the dawn of time, Macintosh did not include the right-click capability. Its mice were single button. The right-click menus were accessed by holding down the Control key — the outside key in the triple lineup — while clicking with the single button. This choice remains. However, the no-right-click restriction disappeared a decade or more ago. But the collective memory gave birth to the myth that Macs still can't right click, and this myth won't die because of its value as fodder for the FUD[B]*[/B] machine, even with Apple's laptop trackpads providing two-finger-tap right clicks. Apple's one-button philosophy wasn't born of ignorance or stupidity. Outside the hallowed halls of Xerox's labs, computer mice were an unknown. Apple's overriding philosophy was and still is Keep It Simple, and at the time, a single button made a ton of sense. There were no other computers — for the mass market, anyway — using mice. Everything was command-line. Somewhere on a CD I have an Apple tutorial (complete with drawings — wow!) on how to use a mouse. Now it's as quaint as the "How To Use a Dial Phone" movies you can stream or download at the Internet Archive. So now there are three right-click choices: a multi-button mouse, a left click while holding down the Control key and the two-finger tap on the trackpad. [B]*[/B]FUD: Fear, uncertainty and doubt, anti-Apple propaganda. [/QUOTE]
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