Erratic Mouse Clicking

I have an iBook G4/933. Mouse click will work sometimes after booting up but only briefly and loses function seemingly without any pattern. I have booted with a Tiger disc and the mouse click works briefly, if at all, regardless of internal or external mouse. Have managed to repair permissions and repair hard disk while booted from CD. Have used an external "known good" Apple USB mouse and doesn't help. Have also zapped PRAM and reset PMU multiple times and no help. I can't blame a faulty OS install if the mouse isn't functioning properly while booted from Tiger install disc. If the internal clicker is to blame and is bad, would that also disable an external USB mouse click? I'm really stumped on this one and any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
There is an Apple article that might be of help:
Portables: Jumpy or erratic trackpad
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=17228
See if any of the suggestions in this article are helpful.
I don't know to what extent trackpad problems would affect the external mouse. But you could go to System Preferences>Keyboard and Mouse>Trackpad and check the box that says "Ignore trackpad when mouse is present" and see if that will at least let you use an external mouse.
Please post back if none of this helps.
Good luck!

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Hello All,
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Jstys92,
Heat? Motherboard? Sounds like hardware since it's across Operating systems...
If you have a warranty, this is the time to call HP.
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Maybe I understand something wrongly, but thought you also wanted to know how you can make slides advance on clicking the Next button instead of having it playing on automatically? And instead of using the playbar you want to have a Previous and Next button?
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A click box is an 'interactive' object: this means that you can have it pausing the slide, that the user can interact with it and trigger an action like 'Go to Next Slide'.
You added (from what I see on the last screenshot) another interactive object, but now I'm confused: the third screenshot has a Prev and Next arrow, I think those are shapes. You do not need to add a click box on top of them (what I see on the last screenshot), they can be converted themselves into buttons. I blogged a lot about those shape buttons. Anyway, both click box and shape button can pause the slide. This is the case by default for click boxes (at the end of their duration, their timeline), for shape buttons you have to tell them to pause in the Timing accordion. In your case I certainly would choose a shape button because they can be put on a master slide, or timed for the rest of the project whereas Click boxes need to be unique on each slide, you'l have a lot of copy/paste to do then. In the Action accordion, On Success you choose the action, I think in this case you want 'Go to Next Slide' for the Next 'thing'
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Lilybiri

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You're asking for a lot in one post. It would be better to break your requests down a bit.
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import time
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Background
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Even a guru learns new things...
I just discovered the use of a picture control/indicator to detect mouse positions and clicks! What a wonderful thing. I have LabVIEW 6.0.2, and have, up to now, not known about this. To all those out there who I recommended to use the mouse click API for Windows, I apologize. This is such a marvelous way to get Mouse information. It's easy, efficient, and completely held within LabVIEW.
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Any comments or questions?

Hi,
This is ideal for some applications, you can even build drag/drop functions
into a picture control using this. But there are some backdraws (or one very
big one);
The picture control needs to be the control on front.
The picture control needs to cover the entire area you need information on.
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used, not even simply clicking on a button...
It also makes the screen updates take a lot more proccessor time, because
controls/indicators are overlapping. In the example for instance, the charts
are not clear to read, because they're flickering.
Regards,
Wiebe.
"Labviewguru" wrote in message
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> Even a guru learns new things..
>
> I just discovered the use of a picture control/indicator to detect
> mouse positions and clicks! What a wonderful thing. I have LabVIEW
> 6.0.2, and have, up to now, not known about this. To all those out
> there who I recommended to use the mouse click API for Windows, I
> apologize. This is such a marvelous way to get Mouse information.
> It's easy, efficient, and completely held within LabVIEW.
>
> If anyone is wondering what I am talking about, go to Help>Examples in
> LabVIEW and go to the Examples>Advanced Examples>Picture Control
> Examples>Mouse Control.vi to see what I mean. I didn't realize that
> if you dropped a picture control (even as an invisible object!) on the
> front panel that you could use property nodes to get x and y
> positions, and also the left, right, shift left or right, and third
> mouse button click information.
>
> Of course, I hear that this may all be somewhat obsolete in LabVIEW
> 6.1, but for those still using 6.01 or earlier, it's a great t
ool that
> means you don't have to mess with API, MFC or dlls.
>
> Any comments or questions?

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