[OSM-talk] OSM on "factory" Macs

[Dermot McNally]

2008/4/22 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:

>  I am quite confused now about dragging the map. Many have said that
>  using the mouse with JOSM on the Macs does not work very well. But
>  then I am told you can use Ctrl "rightclick simulation" to do the
>  dragging, and others again say that some applications would use the
>  space bar a a modifier key. Why would they, if Ctrl is already built
>  in?

It's worth addressing this in isolation. As long as the mice supplied
are mighty mice, (and we're told that's the only sort now used), no
problem...

BUT: By default, the right side of the mighty mouse will be mapped to
button 1 just like the left side. Although Ctrl-click seems to be the
MacOS way of right-clicking when you don't have a second button, in my
couple of years of owning Macs I've never ever done this. Just fire up
the mouse preferences and use the visual control panel to map button 2
and button 3 and you'll be able to use JOSM as you normally do, and
that includes using the wheel to zoom. I happen to choose to use a
Microsoft mouse on my home Mac (my mighty mouse is a lemon whose
right-click doesn't work well), but mapped correctly the Mighty Mouse
behaves sufficiently like any normal mouse not to cause you any
problems.

But do test the right-clicking in good time just in case you too get a
lemon - alert the sponsor to the problem and he'll no doubt be
motivated to swap the mouse out.

Dermot