[gametime10]

One thing I dislike about OS X is that the mouse click only registers when you let go of the button. This is annoying just in everyday use (especially being used to Windows) and makes everything seem laggy. But it's downright intolerable when it comes to gaming (ie: Warcraft 3). Anyway to fix this to make it work more like Windows?

Thanks,

Geoff

[Developer]

That's how it is supposed to be. I'm pretty sure Windows also triggers actions after clicks on controls only after the mouse button has been released.

However, applications are free to use mouse down events and most games certainly do where appropriate. I don't know Warcraft 3 so I don't know why it doesn't. The only fix would be to ask the developer of that game to change this behaviour.

[SupahCoolX]

I think it's best that way. For example, you can correct "accidental" mouse clicks by just holding on, moving the pointer away from the button/widget/whatever-you-clicked, and then releasing.

[theory]

Open safari. Open a new tab. Click on the tabs
but don't let go of the mouse. You switch
to the other tab.

So I think it is up to the programmers to
choose how to handle mouse clicks. Click
on the cross on a tab and you will notice
it will only activate when you let go. I think
thats the way it should be I would hate to
be trying to switch to a tab and then discover
that I closed it.

Menus also activate when you click on them
with out releasing because there is no harm in
doing so but activating a menu item only
happens when you let go.

I think if everything is activated when you
click on it computers would be hard to use.
And I am quite sure Windows doesn't do that.a

[Chuckit]

Actually, that's one of the things that has always annoyed me about the Dock -- I'll always click on an icon, realize I picked the wrong one, instictively mouse off the item and let go of the mouse button. Of course, in that case it removes the item from your Dock. Oops.

Personally, I'd prefer it if the Dock worked like a toolbar, where you have to hold command in order to "pick up" an item.

[Chris Grande]

Originally posted by Chuckit:
Actually, that's one of the things that has always annoyed me about the Dock -- I'll always click on an icon, realize I picked the wrong one, instictively mouse off the item and let go of the mouse button. Of course, in that case it removes the item from your Dock. Oops.

Personally, I'd prefer it if the Dock worked like a toolbar, where you have to hold command in order to "pick up" an item.

If you hold long enough and activate the "View in Finder" menu then move your cursor off and release it will deactivate the icon without removing it from the dock. I do agree with you on the on the command click-drag.

On another note, ever notice how the toolbar acts in system preferences, completely different from every other toolbar.