Mighty Mouse and double clicking

Mouse is set to "double click", but, if I place the cursor over a file in my desktop and click the mouse, nothing happens.
Clicking on links in the browser works fine, but I have to hold down the "control" key in order to invoke the contextual menu and then select "open", in order execute an action that the mouse should do.
I am a new, iMac convert, and do not know if this behavior is normal.

Are you double clicking?
No.
Again, mouse is set to double click when I press on it, once.

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Mighty mouse and right click???

I have a mighty mouse and the right is set to a primary button however it doesn't function like a right click. i still have to press control to get the right click functionality?? HELP!!

What is strange about my mighty mouse which also experiences similar issues is that you have to be careful where you are pushing it. My right tbutton is set as a control click but if I don't push it in the very upper right hand of the mighty mouse it behaves as a single click. The left hand button, as such, does not seem to be as sensitive to placement as the right hand one. For a long while I could not get it to work at all, until I figured out where I actually had to strike it.
I had never used a mighty mouse until I purchased a new iMac a couple of weeks ago and just figured it was "operator difficulty" as I am far more used to a trackball than a mouse. I may still go back to one if I can't get used to this mouse. I think you really have to put your whole hand over the mouse to make it function properly and I tend not to do that.
Does this help you with your issue? I am not sure, maybe there is some sort of difference in the way the mighty mouse works with new hardware?
Good Luck! Wish I had more to offer other than trying carefully to position your handin difernt places and see if that helps.
Message was edited by: Al Van Malsen

Wired Mighty Mouse and right click on my intel imac

Hi,
This is a stumper!
1) Wired mighty mouse stated to lose right click functions. Control click
works fine but right click with menus is gone.
2) Tried steer mouse. No change
3) Deleted hidmouse user prefs. No change.
4) System Archive and install. no change
5) Clean install and Account reinstall (by hand). no change
6) Nuke and Pave. no change
7.) Pram reset. no change
8) Mouse works on other Macbook- not a mouse problem.
9) Second Mighty mouse exhibits the same problem.
10) logging into second account. no change
11) Other 2 button mice work!
12) I like my mighty mouse, but I need right click!!
13) Tried Apple Dev hid driver debug . no change
14) Tried a bunch of other things but this has me stumped....
(and I'm Apple Certified) any other suggeestions or software
I can try? Context plugins are ok...but I'm not sure if there are other prefes to deleted? Also, a totally fresh install should have fixed this...what's going on here? I need to know.

What is strange about my mighty mouse which also experiences similar issues is that you have to be careful where you are pushing it. My right tbutton is set as a control click but if I don't push it in the very upper right hand of the mighty mouse it behaves as a single click. The left hand button, as such, does not seem to be as sensitive to placement as the right hand one. For a long while I could not get it to work at all, until I figured out where I actually had to strike it.
I had never used a mighty mouse until I purchased a new iMac a couple of weeks ago and just figured it was "operator difficulty" as I am far more used to a trackball than a mouse. I may still go back to one if I can't get used to this mouse. I think you really have to put your whole hand over the mouse to make it function properly and I tend not to do that.
Does this help you with your issue? I am not sure, maybe there is some sort of difference in the way the mighty mouse works with new hardware?
Good Luck! Wish I had more to offer other than trying carefully to position your handin difernt places and see if that helps.
Message was edited by: Al Van Malsen

Mighty Mouse and Rt Click??

I want to make the top button perform like a rt click (ie. Control click) How do I do this? I know how to get to the setup preferences for my mighty mouse but I can't seem to find this.

You might try SteerMouse. It has some nice features including that.

Problem with Left Click (mighty mouse) and flash content

Hi, first sorry for my bad english...
Well I have an issue with the left click (i have mighty mouse) and flash content in Firefox:
if i'm using Firefox and then change to any other app, when i get back to firefox i have no left click anymore...
So i have to open the mouse setting panel and everything works fine again...
I don't want to open the mouse panel over and over again to fix that, so what i can do?
THANKS in advance =)
I uploaded a video to show the issue:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROWSod5fUjk
Mighty mouse Settings:
Left Click + Right Click
Firefox ver: 3.5.5
Snow Leopard: 10.6.2
iMac 24" (iMac9,1)
Message was edited by: MaLk Gopher

Hi, Guys!!
And you have some right cosmic_hippo , Why?
Well think that the real problem it's something between Firefox and Flash content...
because if i use Safari and i try make what i describe in the first post, i don't have any problem with the mouse settings.
Only Happens when i use Firefox...
Cheers.
Well the issue is still there...

How to handle both single click and double click from mouse

hey,
I looked in past threads and didn't get a proper answer for capturing both single and double click from the mouse.
in most applications the single click action does not interfere with the double click action, for example in a text editor, single click sets the cursor in between the text, double click marks a word, triple click marks a sentence, they do not bother each other, they all can happen first the single then the double and then the triple, but what if i have a very distinct action for each of the actions, the e.getClickCount() returns every time the number of clicks and if i use
if(e.getClickCount()==1)
    doSingleClick();
if(e.getClickCount()==2)
    doDoubleClick();it will always do first the single click and then the double click, which works fine with the example i gave, but not with what i want to do, so i was thinking to over come this that i will use another thread to run my tasks if dt has past since the last click and by the last click counts to perform the correct action and go to sleep until the next mouse click notify it, what do you think?
run this to get what i mean...
package blah;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class MouseClickTest {
     static long previousTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          JPanel panel = new JPanel();
          JButton component = new JButton("Hit me, please");
          component.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter(){
               public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent me){
                    if(me.getClickCount()==1)
                         System.out.println("Now I will do single click action");
                    if(me.getClickCount()==2)
                         System.out.println("Now I will do DOUBLE click action");
//                    System.out.println("Click count: " + me.getClickCount());
          panel.add(component);
          Launcher.launch(panel);
package blah;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class Launcher {
     public static JFrame launch (Container contents, String title, Color backgroundColor) {
          JFrame frame = new JFrame (title);
          if (backgroundColor != null) {
               frame.setBackground (backgroundColor);
               contents.setBackground (backgroundColor);
          } else {
               frame.setBackground (contents.getBackground());
          frame.getContentPane().add (contents, BorderLayout.CENTER);
          frame.pack();
          frame.addWindowListener (new WindowAdapter() {
               public void windowClosing (WindowEvent e) {
                    System.exit (0);
          frame.setVisible (true);
          return frame;
     public static JFrame launch (Container contents, String title)      {
          return launch (contents, title, null);
     public static JFrame launch (Container contents, Color backgroundColor) {
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}

Read my comments and solution in this posting; [http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=57&threadID=705244]
and then choose a better design for your application.

TS3048 Right click on Mighty Mouse and Wireless Keyboard are not working

I have a 24" iMac, early 2009 Lion,10.7.5. My wireless keyboard and mighty mouse are not working properly. Wireless keyboard- I can turn it on and it will ask me to pair it with the Blue Tooth. I cannot log the numbers in - I even tried logging them in with my wired keyboard device (which is an Apple keyboard).
My Mighty Mouse's right click stopped working as well.
I have gone through all of the troubleshooting steps-
New Batteries - Cleared Blue tooth preferences list, repaired permissions, Cleared cache, Made sure that the settings were correct ex: key was not checked on mouse, Removed both devises (keyboard, and mouse) from blue tooth and allowed them to be discovered again, PRAM reset, Hardware check/ reset, and lastly, Reinstall of OSX.
I am still having the same issue with both devices.
Thank you.

This is why you should always have a wired keyboard and mouse as backups.
Try smc and hope for the best.
I'd also suggest pram reset but you need the keyboard for that.

Doubt - mouse double click invokes both single and double click

Hi Friends,
I added mouse listener to a java component. In the mouseClicked() method, I have implementation for both mouse single and double click. When I try to double click that component it invokes the single click method first and the it invokes the double click method. My problem is when I try to double click that component it should invoke my double click method alone not single click too.
I'd be very grateful if someone can help me.
Thanks and Regards,
Sangeetha J

Your problem: a double click is two single clicks. The first click will always fire a single-click event. How's the computer supposed to know that another click is to follow?
All I think you could do is to instantiate a timer in the one-click method, set to whatever amount of time you think a double-click should take. If you get a second event while the timer's still active, it was a double-click and you can stop the timer and do the double-click action. Otherwise your timer should execute the single-click action after it timed out.
But this will make your GUI look like it's responding slowly to single-clicks.

Mighty Mouse Problems - right click and battery changing

So I am on my second Mighty Mouse after the first one completely stopped working one day. Took it in to Apple and they gave me a new one.
This new one generally works ok (although right click fails every few days) but when I change the batteries and turn it back on the computer doesn't find it. I have to plug in my old Logitch and discover the Mighty Mouse and pair it again using the Logitech to control the cursor.
Then this morning the Mighty Mouse left click button stopped working so I turned it off and on again and once again, the computer didnt recognise the mouse and I had to go through the whole discovering and pairing process again using my other mouse.
Any ideas - I have checked the Bluetooth preferences and cant seen anything that I should be checking - it says my mouse is paired, connected and discoverable.
Any ideas or are Mighty Mouses just an ordinary piece of hardware - my experience so far has been ordinary!
By the way - I have a new (December 07) 24inch iMac and 10.5.2

Hey,
I just talked to German Apple telephone support. They fixed the problem for me! With fresh installs of 10.7.5 the problem is that two files are missing that are needed for the mouse. In my case I could get them from another computer I own that ran Lion and did have the files. To get to the files you need do this:
Go to
/System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin
control-click that file and choose "show contents"
now in the finder window navigate to
Contents/PlugIns/
In this folder should be two files named
AppleBluetoothHIDMouse.plist
and
AppleHIDMouse.plist
If you don't find these files, you need to get them and put them in.

Mighty Mouse and Itunes

Is it possible to configure the mighty mouse and its side buttons to work with Itunes (i.e play/pause, skip tracks)?
I just got this mouse, so I'm trying to figure it out as I go.

The double-click speed needed to be reduced.

Mighty Mouse Wireless Right Click not working

Hi Friends!
I am having some difficulty getting my Right Click on my Wireless MM to work. I am aware that I need to keep my left finger off the mouse but it still does not seem to be working.
Any thoughts ?
Thanks !
J

Try replacing the battieries (or just taking them out and putting them back in). Forcing the connection between the Mighty Mouse and the iMac to break. Then put the new batteries, or the ones you were you using from before, in the MM.
Re-link the Mighty Mouse to the iMac and try applying the settings for the right click function in System Preferences.
Remember to mark as helpful or solved.
-benny

Programming button for single and double click

I know how to programme a button to play a certain movie segment. However, in my current project I need to be able to programme a button in the menu so that
1. on rollover - nothing
2. on single mouse click - button colour changes + a parapraph of text appears on the menu screen in a predefined space
3. on double click - a movie clip plays
It might be a simple qiestion but I would greatly appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction.
Thanks.

Nick76 wrote:
I know how to programme a button to play a certain movie segment. However, in my current project I need to be able to programme a button in the menu so that
1. on rollover - nothing
Do not change the highligh and it will look like nothing is happening (make sure auto activate is not beign used)
2. on single mouse click - button colour changes + a parapraph of text appears on the menu screen in a predefined space
3. on double click - a movie clip plays
It might be a simple qiestion but I would greatly appreciate it if you could point me in the right direction.
Thanks.
Single and Double clicks cannot be done like that. (Some players using layered menus do require a click to get things seen but not really what you are speaking about.)
Flash or Director may be better for this?

Mighty Mouse and Kensington Slimblade

My wife and I use a MBP and a MBA since SL we cannot get either mouse to behave. Connection is difficult and when connected behviour is erratic and right click on the MBA produces Expose! This appears to be fundamental.

I'll answer my own questions. I have both Mighty Mouse and Kensington's MouseWorks AND Microsoft Mouse all co-existing harmoniously.

Mighty Mouse and wireless keyboard stop working

Just got my iMac yesterday and everything worked out of the box. But once yesterday and once so far today, the wireless mighty mouse and keyboard stopped working.
Today I noticed after the mouse stopped moving the cursor, the little green light on the bottom of the mouse was blinking. I turned off the mouse and turned it back on, but the green light still blinked and the mouse still didn't work.
The only thing that did something was the power button on the iMac. I had to turn off the iMac and turn it back on. Then the keyboard and mouse worked again.
What's going on? Do I need to get the iMac repaired?

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Try deleting this file. com.apple.bluetooth.plist
/Users/YourName/Library/Preferences. Drag that file from the Preferences folder to the Trash, empty the Trash and reboot.
If that doesn't help, make sure the batteries are charged. Go to System Preferences/Keyboard&Mouse. Click the Bluetooth tab. Your battery levels are displayed there. When it gets down to one green bar on the left, install new batteries.
If none of the above helps, turn the mouse and keyboard off. Delete the mouse and keyboard from the System Preferences/Bluetooth devices window. Select the mouse in the window on the left, then click the minus - button. Now open the slider on the mouse so the green light blinks. Click + which will launch the Bluetooth Setup Assistant. Just follow the instructions. Same for the keyboard. If you still have issues with the wireless hardware, I'd take it back. You have 14 days in case you need to replace the iMac.
Carolyn

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