Missing mouse clicks
I have no idea why, but some mouseclicks are missing here. I can click stuff, but it doesn't do anything. This is maybe every 10th click. Any idea why this happens?
Thanks
For example double clicking in Finder to open an application, clicking a link in safari, clicking on a window... everything...
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I have updated both my desktop (Win7) and my laptop (WinXP) to Firefox 9.0.1 (from 8.0) and both are suffering from this issue.
about 99% of my left mouse clicks seem to get ignored, but middle and right are both perfectly find. Left button operates correctly in all other programs.
The mouse works correctly in the taskbar/menus/tab bar/scroll bar, but stops as soon as I am inside the page display area.
Sometimes if I click continuously for 10 seconds I get an ok click, or sometimes I have to use a different program for a minute and then come back, then I can get 1 or 2 clicks before it stops working.
Currently navigating using tab, and shift+tab.
This is very very annoying, has anyone else noticed this after update? or have any ideas?garry wrote:
My current issue is that if the simulator is frozen (system time is cycling within a 100ms window) mouse clicks on buttons are getting lost.OK that's an entirely different kettle of fish. Firing an action does require that the mouseReleased be later than the mousePressed, and that both be over the button.
Consider ths scenarion in any normal application that doesn't interfere with the system time. The user presses the mouse over some other component, drags over to the button and releases it. Next, the user presses the mouse over the button, drags off the button and then releases it. This isn't supposed to trigger the button's ActionListener#actionPerformed.
With the system time looping, how does the runtime know that this isn't the case?
I can see the button border change when I move the mouse over the button,that's rollover, triggered from mouseEntered. timing is not an issue.
but the mouse click is lost (button does not get depressed).See above.
Sometimes it works fine for a few mouse clicks and other times several mouse clicks will be lost in a row.See above.
It seems random.In a way, it is.
This seems to be more prevalent with buttons than capturing a mouse click on a panel where I do 2D drawing. Not sure why.Could be just human susceptibility to guesswork, or may actually have something to do with the occasional additional processor cycles involved in the custom painting. Since you haven't described the frequency of repainting nor its complexity, that guess is my susceptibility to guesswork ;)
When I put the simulator into Run mode, it works perfectly, never missing a click.Of course it will.
Anyone out there have any insights into what might be going on under the hood inside Java/Swing with mouse events and the system clock?See above.
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What do you mean by Tabs sub-menu is it right-clicking on a tab ?
I know that "ctrl-shift-D" still work.
I know that a right-click on a tab gives the "Bookmark all Tabs" function.
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Recording keystrokes and mouse clicks?
Greetings,
I need to be able to make scripts/macros by recording keystrokes and mouse clicks with location.
Is this possible with Automator?
Does anyone know of a way program to do this?
It seems so simple.
ThanksKeyboard shortcuts were often missed. For example, I tried this sequence many times.
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Over the past few weeks for no apparent reason mouse clicks will stop working on my Mac Pro. Generally speaking, clicking will work in the dock, system menu bar and sometimes a click on a background window of another application will bring to to the front. At other times clicking anywhere has zero effect.
The mouse moves around the screen fine otherwise. I generally use an Apple wireless trackpad but once this problem occurs it doesn't matter what input device I use - a wired mouse, my wireless Wacom tablet, etc. - the problem remains. I can tab around within an application, fill in text fields or open files using the keyboard. But even using screen share and taking control of the desktop from my laptop the problem remains: clicking of any kind does not work. So it's not the input devices or their connections.
On occasion I will hit command-option escape and force quit all applications and restart the finder and that will work. Other times not.The system remains responsive - no spinning beachballs etc. In the end I'm forced to restart the computer and everything returns to normal.
Whats-a-going-on? Any ideas?Sorry, missed that...
My point remains the same: if your hard-wired devices are known good, then you have a intermittent problem that resides either in the OS or in hardware. The nexts step are along the lines of reseating all the boards, running hardware tests, etc. to try to determine if it's hardware or software before re-installing the operating system.
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I wrote a relatively simple program. It's got a single visual component on the window, an NSView subclass with drawing delegated out to another class called Arrow. Anyway, it uses a timer to trigger calls to drawRect which in turn "animates" a layer. I have a 100x100 layer and a velocity & position which get updated each time through depending on how much "real" time has passed. As the layer bounces around the screen, the animation seems smooth and everything looks good. If I start clicking in the window, however, things get wonky. The animation stutters (probably expected) and the position sometimes gets set back to the origin (0,0, bottom left corner of screen). I wonder if there's something I can do to stop mouse clicks from affecting the view, I have no set up anything to use the mouse clicks AT ALL so I don't really know how they can affect anything in the code I wrote. If this isn't enough info to answer the question, I'll post the xcode project.
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This bug in Mail started in Lion, and has continued (or possibly worsened in some instances) in Mountain Lion. Has anybody heard of a fix?
Basically Mail acts like it is freezing, but in fact is not handling mouse clicks properly.
1) If Mail is "behind" another active app window, clicking in the content area of the Mail window will not activate the window until you click a SECOND time.
2) Once you get Mail to respond by clicking it the second time, if you click back and forth between it and the window in front (e.g. between safari and mail, the clicks DO register, but Mail acts as if the click position is offset from where you actually click. The offset seems to vary and I haven't found a consistent link between the offset and where I click in mail or the other window, or the relative positions of the two windows.
3) When you try the 2) trick on elements that can scroll, you realise that as well as an offset, Mail is trying to "drag" instead of respond to a click, so the list of mail folders pulls and bounces back, or the list of mail scrolls, or sometimes if everything lines up, an image of an envelope appears and moves as if you are trying to drag an email from one place to another.
4) Clicking on the title/button/toolbar of Mail ALWAYS brings it to the front...
5) If you bring Mail to the front by repeatedly clicking on the content area (and yes, sometimes it takes more than one click...) and as the FIRST thing you do after activating the window, click one of the buttons in the toolbar (e.g. the trash or delete button), it will depress, and stay down, as if you have done a "press and hold" instead of a "click". Clicking on the button again will complete the action, but clicking elsewhere in the title bar will release the button and the action will not occur, just as if you had held the mouse button down and dragged off the button before releasing, which is appropriate behaviour IF you had held the mouse button down in the first place...
6) If you activate Mail by clicking in the content area, then clicking a second time in the content area, then continue to single click around the content, it behaves as if it is one step behind you, responding as if the LAST click is the click you just made. Interestingly the "button down state" seems to persist, because for instance clicking on a succession of emails will highlight each email in turn, but the content of the email on the right will not update with each click, only updating when you "break out of the cycle" with a double click or a title bar click.
These are all REPRODUCIBLE, even after a restart.
They ONLY happen in Mail.
I have tried mouse, track pad, turning off bluetooth, so I don't think these things are related.
SO...
I THINK that MAIL, since Lion, has an issue with its event handler, where MouseUp events are either lost or mishandled, so that clicks are being registered as drags, or the "button down" state is not updated or something...
With the above description I feel the Mail programming team should be able to track down the bug in minutes and fix it.
Apple - feel free to get in contact with me and I will let you access my machine via remote desktop or teamviewer or something to see the bug in action.
It is time to fix this annoying behaviour.
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Worked out that 2 and 6 are related - the offset isn't an offset at all - it is the thing you last clicked on!Okay, I tried deleting the Finder preferences first (along with a handful of other preference files that I knew were no longer needed), and it seemed to help--at first. But eventually, all the same problems started happening again, so I concluded that it was necessary to just start with a fresh (empty) preferences folder. As you know, this is a pain to deal with, but I limited my pain by moving all the old preferences files into a folder on the Desktop rather than simply deleting them. That way, I could just put back any missing preferences that were too hard to recreate. Restoring all of my preferences with new (uncorrupted) prefs files will be an ongoing process, but the good news is that this effort (so far) seems to have solved the problem. Mail is responding to all my clicks, even when I switch between different apps and different spaces. :-)
Now that things are working correctly, I notice that when I switch between apps and/or spaces, the selected app (or the frontmost app in the new space) will show an active state for its window, whereas before, the selected app didn't update to show that it was active--it kept the inactive state for its window. I'm no expert, but it seems to me that this might have something to do with the windowserver process, so it might make sense for the next person who stumbles on this thread to start by deleting any preferences files that begin with com.apple.windowserver. Just a hunch, but it's worth starting there before you do a complete flush of all your preferences.
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HELP - mouse click no longer working - Tiger bug?
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Event Handlers of a mouse click
In the simplest way possible please tell me how to do an event handler for a mouse click.
private int clickCounter = 0;
private void MyCanvas_MouseLeftButtonDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
if (Device1RB.IsChecked == true)
clickCounter++;
return;
else if (RemoveRB.IsChecked == true)
clickCounter--;
return;
else
return;
private void Switch_class()
switch (clickCounter)
case 1:
//code here
break;
case 2:
//code here
break;
case 3:
//code here
break;
case 4:
//code here
break;
case 5:
//code here
break;
default:
//code here??
break;
This is what I have and I apparently need an event handler for the mouse click. Also if there is an easier way to do what I want then please point me in the right direction.I still can't figure out why its not working.
private int clickCounter = 0;
private void MyCanvas_MouseLeftButtonDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
if (Device1RB.IsChecked == true)
clickCounter++;
return;
else if (RemoveRB.IsChecked == true)
clickCounter--;
return;
else
return;
private void Switch_class()
switch (clickCounter)
case 1:
pic_1.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Visible;
break;
case 2:
pic_2.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Visible;
break;
case 3:
pic_3.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Visible;
break;
case 4:
pic_4.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Visible;
break;
case 5:
pic_5.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Visible;
break;
default:
//code here??
break;
That's what I've got.
<Canvas x:Name="MyCanvas" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="391" Margin="130,20,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="520" MouseLeftButtonDown="MyCanvas_MouseLeftButtonDown" Background="Transparent">
<Rectangle Fill="White" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="391" Stroke="Black" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="520"/>
<Image HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="34" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="100" Source="Power.png" Visibility="Visible"/>
<Image x:Name="pic_1" Height="42" Canvas.Left="152" Canvas.Top="70" Width="44" Source="2box.png" Visibility="Hidden"/>
<Image x:Name="pic_2" Height="42" Canvas.Left="152" Canvas.Top="70" Width="44" Source="2box.png" Visibility="Hidden"/>
<Image x:Name="pic_3" Height="42" Canvas.Left="152" Canvas.Top="70" Width="44" Source="2box.png" Visibility="Hidden"/>
<Image x:Name="pic_4" Height="42" Canvas.Left="152" Canvas.Top="70" Width="44" Source="2box.png" Visibility="Hidden"/>
<Image x:Name="pic_5" Height="42" Canvas.Left="152" Canvas.Top="70" Width="44" Source="2box.png" Visibility="Hidden"/>
</Canvas>
This is the canvas...Is there something blatantly obvious that I'm missing? -
Right mouse click in word for mac
i just bought a g-5 intel core duo and i love it. though i am an experienced mac user this is my first time with the mighty mouse and i miss the right mouse click when i am in word for mac (2004): with my old mouse i could right mouse click on a word and get immediately into the thesaurus/dictionary, whereas with the one-click mighty mouse i have to go to tools, then thesaurus or dictionary, which takes several clicks. is it possible to program the mighty mouse so that i can get with one click to the thesaurus dictionary? thanks in advance. mmvski from amsteram
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The Mighty Mouse buttons can be programmed on Mac OS X using Apple menu --> System Preferences --> Keyboard & Mouse.
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Hey,
On a slide, after you insert the mouse, isn't there something I should do to hear the mouse click. I've already got all of the buttons checked under the mouse properties(show mouse click and mouse click sound). Now, shouldn't I simply hear a click at the end of the mouse object? Is there some kind of global setting I am missing?
What gives?
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JeffHi there
Mouse click sounds exist as an audio file and are not recorded. While I'm not one of the Captivate Development team, it is my understanding that all that is recorded are the starting and ending points as well as the pointer in use.
Of course Mouse object provides click sounds. The evidence is in the dialog.
A bit of a mystery as to why you may not be hearing them. Any chance of sharing your project so one of us may see first hand?
Cheers... Rick
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As far as the computer, my PC is running Windows 8.1 Pro (64-bit). The hardware is as follows:
Processor: AMD FX8120 (8-core, 3.10GHz)
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX550 Ti
Input Device: Wacom Intuos3 Tablet (using provided mouse, not pen while using C4D)
Memory: 16 GB usable (have 32 installed but haven't spent the time to figure out how to get it all to work with Windows 8)
Screen Resolution: on Monitor #1 (HDMI) and Monitor #2 (Analog) it is set to the recommended 1920 x 1080
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OpenGL settings: it IS turned ON (Linear, Anti-Alias = 4, Max transparency = 2, Max Lights = 8, Max Shadows = 2, and Use Shader Cache is checked)
Memory settings: the cache is defaulted to the C drive. I set my cache in AE to the B drive, which I would prefer but I C4d won't let me change this at the moment)
Input Devices: PSR Cursor = False, Tool Cursor = true, Mouse Move Activation = True, Graphics Tablet = False, Hi-Res Tablet = True, Open Commander Dialog on Mouse Position = True
I'm thinking the fact that the Graphics tablet is unchecked in C4d might be the issue? I can try to change it with the trick I originally mentioned, but let me know if there is anything else you see that you think might help. Did I miss anything? I really appreciate it! Thank you. -
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Am I missing something, can I get this to work in Safari?
Cheers,
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