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[Bernhard Stegmaier <stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Up to now I also didn’t find any way to have a “middle button” with only Apple gear (there seem to be some tools for simulating, but I didn’t try them yet).

So, it might work with a normal PC mouse, but why should I want to use such a thing in an Apple environment - or, just buy one to be able to use KiCad?
Current Apple mice and touchpad have the touch panning you are used from every smartphone, tablet, and more important any other OS X application.

More bad, just like Bob said… since the normal mouse wheel is mapped to zoom, if you accidentally touch the mouse the wrong way it zooms in/out which is very nasty.

For me, this is still the reason why KiCad without Garths panning patches is just a no-go on OSX.
It is great with them… :)


Regards,
Bernhard


> On 02 Apr 2015, at 09:50, Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 04/01/2015 10:23 PM, Bob Gustafson wrote:
>> I just now downloaded your OS X nightly build (both debug and regular) on my wife’s Mac mini. She does not like the trackpad and has an Apple Mouse (latest model) -> more or less a standard Mac (it does have a Cinema 30 from a previous Mac).
>> 
>> When I create a board, add some chips and wires, I have difficulty in controlling the circuit on the screen. Whenever I touch the top of the mouse (one finger or two), the circuit layout zooms wildly. It doesn’t matter whether I stroke the mouse up and down or left-right, the circuit zooms big (bigger than the screen) or tiny. No panning action from the mouse.  This is with both the eeschema and pcbnew views.
>> 
>> Perhaps I have my mouse preferences set incorrectly, but other applications work just fine. With LibreOffice or Preview, I can easily pan (one finger) in all directions without causing any zoom.
>> 
>> This is close to the same action I see on my Mac Laptop.
>> 
>> If this is the normal operation of KiCad on the Mac, I can’t see how it can be a release version.
>> 
>> Bob G
> 
> Have you or any other OS X user tried GAL with a common PC USB mouse? Is
> the problem associated with this particular mouse model or is it the
> same for any other pointing device under OS X?
> 
> Regards,
> Orson
> 
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