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| Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - General Chat - Who else is using the keyboard buttons as a mouse? |
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insectduel Lantern Ghost Not welcome here anymore.                   Since: 11-18-05 From: Bronx, New York Last post: 6563 days Last view: 6358 days |
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| About half the time. I have to press the TAB button to go where ever it goes. | |||
Andy Zora   Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6649 days Last view: 6649 days |
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| I have always used the mouse ever seince I got this computer. | |||
Rydain Sir Kibble Blaze Phoenix Runs with the Dragon Within  Since: 11-18-05 From: State College, PA Last post: 6324 days Last view: 6321 days |
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On my Mac, I use the mouse, but I make heavy use of keyboard shortcuts. There is a wide variety of OS X applications with highly featured keyboard shortcut sets that comply with standards set by Apple. Thus, the same shortcut tends to do the same thing in multiple apps, which makes shortcuts much easier to learn and remember. I look for this sort of standards adherence when picking out applications. (GIMP, which runs under X11, is the only exception, as there's no better free OS X image editor that I've seen yet, and I don't feel like buying Photoshop just to screw around with an icon every now and then  ) I never replaced my standard soap bar Mac mouse with a multibutton, and honestly, it works. I don't mind holding a modifier to "right-click" every now and then.
On the Windows XP laptop, I try to avoid using the mouse as much as possible because it's a trackpad and though it works, it can be annoying to use precisely. Of course, plugging in a USB mouse solves that problem. All I'm really doing with the laptop right now is typing, though, so I never bother locating the mouse just for that. I use the mouse all the time on my XP box at work because the keyboard shortcut set in EditPlus (our standard editor) is teh sux. |
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HyperHacker Star Mario Finally being paid to code in VB! If only I still enjoyed that. <_< Wii #7182 6487 4198 1828 Since: 11-18-05 From: Canada, w00t! My computer's specs, if anyone gives a damn. STOP TRUNCATING THIS >8^( Last post: 6320 days Last view: 6320 days |
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| I use the mouse but I do use a lot of keyboard shortcuts. Though sometimes I use the keyboard for really fine mouse movements, like during graphic editing when I need something to be pixel-perfect. I found a nice feature where any time you turn Num Lock off, the numpad acts as a mouse, since having it emulate the arrow keys is useless.
I also once tried using one of those really old joysticks as a mouse, which was neat but too hard to use. You don't get much precision that way. Plus only one button worked.  |
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jordan_mega_gamer Red Goomba Since: 11-25-05 From: Vermont, USA Last post: 6346 days Last view: 6345 days |
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| I use keyboard to scroll, sometimes, but usually I use my super-cool scrollwheel.
I do use PageUp/PageDown when I'm scrolling a long distance, though. |
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Xkeeper Took the board down in a blaze of glory, only to reveal how truly moronical ||bass is.  Since: 11-17-05 From: Henderson, Nevada Last post: 6320 days Last view: 6320 days |
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| I always use my mouse for things like scrolling. The only reason I use MK is when it's broken, not working, or I need to click a lot in the same spot |
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Danielle     6730 Administratorrrr HELLO THERE   Since: 11-17-05 From: California Rate me ^_^ Last post: 6321 days Last view: 6320 days |
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| I have used my keyboard to get around on a few occasions, just because I'm bored. But on this board, where there are tons of links and different pages... it gets pretty tedious.
I definitely prefer the mouse. |
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Aurxix Flurry Since: 11-23-05 From: Canada Last post: 6766 days Last view: 6766 days |
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| I had to use it on my old Commodore 64 plenty of times! | |||
Coby Keese Since: 11-20-05 From: Belgium Last post: 6325 days Last view: 6321 days |
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| Nope, never used my keyboard as a mouse. Anyone willing to explain how to do this? | |||
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Deleted User Banned   Since: 05-08-06 Last post: None Last view: 6320 days |
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| "Who else is using the keyboard buttons as a mouse?"
I rarelly do that. |
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Jack Skellington Bit  Since: 11-17-05 From: The Netherworld Last post: 6367 days Last view: 6357 days |
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| Back in the summer, my mouse was a glitched, cursed piece of crap and I used the keyboard for nearly everything. Thankfully I have a new one now, so I only use the keyboard occasionally to scroll down pages. | |||
DtTvB the Yoshi Red Paragoomba Since: 12-02-05 From: Thailand Last post: 6565 days Last view: 6565 days |
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| Sometimes!
When the mouse is not working, I have to use mouse key. To rapidly click, I also made a program that will rapidly click when pressing some key. I even made a program that will use joystick/gamepad as a mouse, it also supports joystick/gamepad pressure. |
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Spinal Kabu Since: 12-20-05 From: Sweden Last post: 6734 days Last view: 6734 days |
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I have done it a few times when i was working on several comps at the same time (and i don't have a mouse for all of them)  |
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Zubatron Red Koopa Since: 12-18-05 From: The Hill Last post: 6523 days Last view: 6523 days |
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| I've been using my keyboard more since I'm in college learning Adobe programs and QuarkXpress. Those hotkeys are quite the ride. | |||
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Deleted User Banned Since: 05-08-06 Last post: None Last view: 6320 days |
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| I use my keyboard as a mouse often but not for everything. Just for moving around the pages and going back and forth through them. It's pretty convienent once you get used to it. |
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