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AppleScript to enable/disable right click option?
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Daracle
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Jan 18, 2009, 12:34 AM
 
Hope this is in the right forum.
I sometimes find myself working from home and using a remote desktop to my Windows machine back in my office, where I am often using my right mouse button.
Hating the right click option on my Mighty Mouse, I was wondering if there is something available with the Automator or AppleScript (I don't know either very well) to set this to a keystroke or something as easy? I have tried to use Automator to simply record myself doing it but it didn't work out too well and I think I have to sit there and watch it do it each time.

In a perfect world, I would love to be able to switch the option on and off as often as I would change which window I am looking at.

Thanks, as always, for the assistance MacNNers.
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Jan 18, 2009, 02:28 AM
 
I'm not sure if I follow.

On WHICH computer (Mac or PC) do you want to replace the right click with a keyboard shortcut ?

If it's on the Mac, you can disable right click in the System Preferences, and the use Control + left click instead.

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Daracle  (op)
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Jan 18, 2009, 12:56 PM
 
Thanks for the reply.

I would like to have the secondary mouse turned off for when I am in my OS X environment and would like to easily enable it when I am in the Windows environment.
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Well, then what I wrote should do what you need.

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Jan 19, 2009, 08:36 PM
 
Thanks, but I find that does not work properly with some things in Outlook that I use and some of the things I do in some of my apps for SQL and such.
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Jan 19, 2009, 09:10 PM
 
Does USB Overdrive work with the Mighty Mouse? If it does, you could set up a setting for Remote Desktop that linked the right "button" to Right Click as usual, and then set the right "button" to a regular Mouse Click in the global settings.

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Jan 19, 2009, 11:22 PM
 
You can write an AppleScript script to enable/disable the right mouse click. Explanations about scripting the System Preferences using UI Scripting are on this page <http://www.apple.com/applescript/uiscripting/index.html> along with an installer for sample script examples.

Here's the script for turing off the right click:

Code:
tell application "System Preferences" activate set the current pane to pane id "com.apple.preference.keyboard" reveal anchor "mouseTab" of the current pane end tell tell application "System Events" tell process "System Preferences" click pop up button 3 of tab group 1 of window 1 click menu item "Primary Button" of menu 1 of pop up button 3 of tab group 1 of window 1 delay 1 keystroke "q" using command down end tell end tell
     
   
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