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[SOLVED] Mac Question

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Ok I am a newb mac user and trying to bring up the menu so I can edit a power button and every combination of keys I use that I would think would bring up the menu doesn't work, it just tries to run the macro. Can someone help with my silly problem?
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I figured it out, I have to place two fingers on the trackpad and push the button... wow what a pain! lol
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Yeah, it's a right-click.

Since you're a touchpad user, you'll likely hit the bug wherein panning the map (using the right-click on the touchpad) prevents tokens from being selected in the future with a left-click.

If this happens to you and you'd like to try out a fix that I've written, I can send you a replacement program. It would work the same, but the touchpad wouldn't mysteriously start failing. :(

It works for me, but no one else has stepped forward to test it and I'd really like this to get into 1.3 Final as it makes MapTool completely unusable on a Mac with a touchpad! (It appears to be a bug in the JVM's handling of the mouse.)

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Azhrei wrote:Yeah, it's a right-click.

Since you're a touchpad user, you'll likely hit the bug wherein panning the map (using the right-click on the touchpad) prevents tokens from being selected in the future with a left-click.

If this happens to you and you'd like to try out a fix that I've written, I can send you a replacement program. It would work the same, but the touchpad wouldn't mysteriously start failing. :(

It works for me, but no one else has stepped forward to test it and I'd really like this to get into 1.3 Final as it makes MapTool completely unusable on a Mac with a touchpad! (It appears to be a bug in the JVM's handling of the mouse.)
I didn't volunteer to test because I haven't been able to reproduce the bug (Unibody MacBook Pro, OS X 10.5.8). I normally use a USB mouse, but I unplugged it to test, and was not able to trigger the problem. One of our players regularly plays with nothing but a trackpad on his older MacBook, and he hasn't run into any problems that I know of either.

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Chrest wrote:I didn't volunteer to test because I haven't been able to reproduce the bug (Unibody MacBook Pro, OS X 10.5.8). I normally use a USB mouse, but I unplugged it to test, and was not able to trigger the problem. One of our players regularly plays with nothing but a trackpad on his older MacBook, and he hasn't run into any problems that I know of either.
Aw, crud. So maybe it's just a Java_5_on_Tiger thing. :( In which case I should probably test using the Leopard I installed on an external drive...

Thanks for the feedback -- that helps. :)

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