Re: context-menu on mouse-down

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Thank You Ronnie!
Good idea! Pressing right then left button almost at the same time, then
poiting a menu item and releasing right then left button almost at the same
time. It works almost everywhere :-)

I've been thinking of buying a Mac, and may be this will do in the future.
Till then I'm not sure if there's a Mac OS that will run on AthlonXP1700+.
Perhaps a trial version at first if available. Another important reason is
that I love my Windows 2003 SP1 ent. server, and I have a lot of software
for it. I also host an Internet web site on my home PC.

In Linux Slackware 11 (KDE 3.4) you drag and drop files with left button and
a context menu is displayed asking you what to do. You can still use the
CTRL or SHIFT modifycation keys to specify the desired action and skip the
context-menu.

One thing I like in Linux is that it will let you use your favourite look
and feel: It supports Windows, Linux and Mac schemes. I'll be happy to see
the next version of Windows supporting this! This inclused Window
decorations, mouse and keyboard behaviour.

I'm trying to have the best of all:
~ The core, performance, reliability and services of Windows 2003.
~ The look and feel of Mac
~ The display performance of Windows Vista - WindowBlinds5 alows me to
resize and move windows without consuming CPU. For example: if you grab a
window and start shaking it fast, the CPU usage will go 100%. I hardly reach
20%.



"Ronnie Vernon MVP" <ronv@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Your making everything look like and behave like a MAC, why not just use a
MAC??? <g>

I don't think this is possible in Windows on a PC, but who knows, there may
be a utility out there somewhere that can do this.

The closest you can come to this behavior is to right click to display the
context menu and then press/hold the left mouse button while moving over the
context menu and release the button on the appropriate menu item.

Doubtful that this will be implemented anytime in the future because the
left mouse button, in Windows, is used for selecting or drag and drop to
copy a file.
--

Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User


"George Valkov" <a@xxxxx> wrote in message
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Is it possible to change the context menu behaviour, so that it will be
displayed on mouse-down (button 2) instead of mouse-click (button2)? Just
like in MAC and Linux.

I never worked on a MAC, but I have the habit to to hold a mouse button,
point a menu or drop-down entry and release the button to activate. (less
clicks)




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