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way to prevent left click from bringing up context menu?
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<blockquote data-quote="toMACsh" data-source="post: 1121844" data-attributes="member: 112842"><p>Of course, the other thing that's different about Dock icons, is that they don't have labels beneath them. Instead, the label pops up above them simply by moving the cursor over the icon. The other thing that happens, or may happen, depending on your Dock preferences, is that the icon you hover over "magnifies", and those next to it do also, to a lesser extent. So this behavior is <strong>sort of</strong> like a single click to highlight an icon, and the single click is <strong>sort of</strong> like the double click to activate it. (Magnification can be turned off.) Activating it either means opening an application (on the left side of the "divider") or exposing the contextual menu (on the right side of the "divider"). The divider is the dashed faint white line that appears to be receding in the distance. Items to the right are either there all the time (called Stacks - simply a pointer to a folder) or only when an application is running. So, say there's a Safari icon on the left side, and Safari is open. There will also be an image that looks like a mini Safari window on the right side, with a tiny Safari icon in the corner of the image. On the Stacks, a left click will bring up a contextual menu to allow you to navigate within the folder it points to. A right click will bring up a different contextual menu that allows you do specify a preferred behavior for sorting, displaying or viewing the Stacks contents, along with a few other options.</p><p></p><p>But, I'm rambling. I doubt that there's a way to disable the contextual menu behavior in the Dock, or even delay it. That would defeat the purpose of the Dock. Having said that, the single click within a Finder Window has the same effect it always did. As stated in a previous post, the Dock is new. There's nothing in OS 9 that is comparable.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="toMACsh, post: 1121844, member: 112842"] Of course, the other thing that's different about Dock icons, is that they don't have labels beneath them. Instead, the label pops up above them simply by moving the cursor over the icon. The other thing that happens, or may happen, depending on your Dock preferences, is that the icon you hover over "magnifies", and those next to it do also, to a lesser extent. So this behavior is [b]sort of[/b] like a single click to highlight an icon, and the single click is [b]sort of[/b] like the double click to activate it. (Magnification can be turned off.) Activating it either means opening an application (on the left side of the "divider") or exposing the contextual menu (on the right side of the "divider"). The divider is the dashed faint white line that appears to be receding in the distance. Items to the right are either there all the time (called Stacks - simply a pointer to a folder) or only when an application is running. So, say there's a Safari icon on the left side, and Safari is open. There will also be an image that looks like a mini Safari window on the right side, with a tiny Safari icon in the corner of the image. On the Stacks, a left click will bring up a contextual menu to allow you to navigate within the folder it points to. A right click will bring up a different contextual menu that allows you do specify a preferred behavior for sorting, displaying or viewing the Stacks contents, along with a few other options. But, I'm rambling. I doubt that there's a way to disable the contextual menu behavior in the Dock, or even delay it. That would defeat the purpose of the Dock. Having said that, the single click within a Finder Window has the same effect it always did. As stated in a previous post, the Dock is new. There's nothing in OS 9 that is comparable. [/QUOTE]
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