Re: [AD] Fwd: fourth mouse button under windows

[Peter Wang <tjaden@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Evert Glebbeek wrote:

> Bump.
> The original message was discussed in April 2003. At the time, I don't 
> think there was a clear concensus on what to do. Eric didn't like the 
> original idea much, but I don't think the patch was really accepted or 
> rejected. I think it was sortof forgotten about.
>
> I have no strong personal objections to adding support for a fourth mouse 
> button if one is detected, except that I find it hard to justify not 
> supporting a fifth button, or even more.
>
> Thoughts?
>  

For reference, the original thread is archived here: 
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=5657703

I still think what I thought then: just expose the fourth, fifth, etc. 
button to the user and let him decide how to use it.  Everyone knows 
very few mice have 4 or 5 buttons, so if their program relies on them 
then their program won't be usable on many systems.

There is the issue of things like 
MOUSE_FLAG_{LEFT,RIGHT,MIDDLE}_{DOWN,UP} but it's probably okay to make 
fourth and fifth buttons into second-class citizens which don't have 
such associated flags.

Peter