[Xcircuit-dev] Mouse button changes ?

[R. Timothy Edwards]

Dear John,

Sorry it took me so long to get around to answering you (particularly
since I started to answer three days ago).

> I've been running 3.2.22 and tried to upgrade to 3.4.22 and 3.6.24
> and the mouse buttons won't work...
> 
> I have a 3 button device and button 1 used to set a point or a box
> corner etc but in these newer releases, none of that works anymore.
> 
> What do I need to do to regain mouse button function for these
> releases?

In version 3.4, I switched to a system in which the toolbar tools
represent different modes of operation for the mouse buttons.
Because prior to 3.4, the "wire mode" was the default button
binding, I added a toolbar button to represent "wire mode".  On
startup, this button (the second one from the top) should have a
highlighted boundary.  If not, try clicking on it to enable wire
drawing mode.

Another change made button bindings more like key bindings, so
there is a possibility that you have some interaction with the
window manager with regard to key focus.  What window manager do
you use?  Be sure to compile the Tcl/Tk version of xcircuit, as it
tends to be much better behaved with a variety of window managers.

> Also, on the 3.6.24, --enable-asg, has build errors, what to I
> need to get that operational it that's possible ?

ASG has never worked, was removed from the 3.4 (stable) release because
it's basically unstable, and will hopefully get done eventually, one
way or another.

					Regards,
					Tim

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