Throughout this manual, the term click refers to the act of pressing
- and releasing the leftmost mouse button (technically identified as
- Button1, but your operating system may allow
- this to be reassigned). This action is used to select objects, activate
+ and releasing the Left mouse button. This action is used to select objects, activate
buttons, turn choices on and off, pop up menus and so forth.
On touch surfaces, it also corresponds to a single, one-finger tap on
the GUI.
@@ -17,28 +15,34 @@ title: Using the Mouse
The term right-click refers to the act of pressing and releasing - the rightmost mouse button (internally called Button2, - but again your operating system may allow this to be reassigned). + the Right mouse button. This action is used to pop up context menus (hence the term "context click", which you will also see). It is also used by default in combination with the shift key to delete objects within the editor window.
- Mac OS mice sometimes have only one button. On Mac OS if you press and hold - the Control key this is equivalent to right-clicking. + Some mice designed for use with Mac OS X may have only one button. By + convention, pressing and holding the Control key while clicking is + interpreted as a right-click by many application..
A middle-click refers to the act of pressing and releasing the - middle mouse button (Button3, which may also be - reassigned). Not all all mice have a middle click button + Middle mouse button. Not all all mice have a middle click button (see the Mouse chapter for details). Sometimes the scroll wheel acts as a clickable middle button. This action is used for time-constrained region copying and mapping MIDI bindings.
++ Internally, your operating system may identify the mouse buttons as + Button1, Button2, and + Button3, respectively. It may be possible to + invert the order of buttons to accommodate left-handed users, or to re-assign + them arbitrarily. This manual assumes the canonical order. +