MouseClick vs ControlClick buttons

[therks 33]

So I was experimenting with these two functions (MouseClick and ControlClick) and found that if I had my mouse buttons swapped, then MouseClick behaved as expected (left actually "clicked" the left button bringing up the menu) but ControlClick detected the change, and instead of "clicking" the left button (and activating the menu) it just acted like I clicked the primary button.

So in summary, I had these results:

(MC = MouseClick, CC = ControlClick)

In "Left handed" mode (Left = secondary, right = primary):

MC "Left": Secondary click Expected

CC "Left": Primary click Unexpected

MC "Right": Primary click Expected

CC "Right": Secondary click Unexpected

Not that I'm complaining, but I don't want to rely on this behaviour and then in the future find out it's a bug and it gets changed and my code is all screwey.

I was actually thinking that perhaps we could have the "main" "menu" "primary" and "secondary" button keywords that MouseClick has incorporated into ControlClick, opinions?

Then there'd be no confusion. "Want to bring up the context menu on that button? ControlClick(...'menu')" etc.

[SmOke_N 211]

I can't imagine that being by design.

[therks 33]

That was my thought.

[botanic 0]

i do think however that it would be better to have one function one way and on the other (just in case you NEVER know...) but i think it should be swapped MC should do the correct click command and CC should do the expected command... it would make more sense to me at least that way...

Edited September 2, 2007 by botanic

[therks 33]

Personally I think they should both behave the same way, and ideally both be able to use the same aliases for buttons. That way you don't have to read registry settings just to make sure you're doing the expected click on a control.

Do I win for most delayed response time ever?