Newbie Right-click issue

I'm a brand new SL user running an a MacBook. Please excuse me if this is stupid.

I can't seem to do right-click.

Normally, ctl-click does the job. When I ctl-click in SL, I get a hand and, if it's a movable object, I can move it. What I can't do is get the control popup wheel (I have somehow seen it a couple of times). That means I can't buy things and heavens knows what else.

Any clues?

tqii

In SL, CMD-Click seems to work the same as right-clicking. That's based on a quick test I just did. I normally right-click, since I'm at a desktop with a multi-button mouse. (CMD is the button with the apple and the cloverleaf on it.)

yes, youll find many programs out there that use CMD click instead of Ctrl click, always try one if the other doesnt work

You can also buy a 2-button mouse for your Mac, too. I've got a 3rd party Bluetooth (wireless) 2-button + scrollwheel mouse I love -- the scrollwheel particularly makes SecondLife a lot easier since it quickly zooms the cameara view in and out. Apple has really done its users a disservice by sticking to a single-button mouse.

I'm so used to ctl-click that I didn't even think about it.

Thanks a bunch everyone!

tqii

I can't name any other Mac programs that use Cmd-Click for a right click. SL is absolutely wrong to use this. To fix, they can keep this odd behavior while adding Control-Click as a second, correct alternative.

Just for information. They changed this recently.

All the new macs ship with a two button scrolling mouse. It's not the best product they ever designed but its a watershed kind of thing that it's now a standard shipping product. The days of the one button mouse are numbered even at Apple.

I agree. I have used macs and mac software since classic days and have never run across a program that used Command-Click. Took me months to get used to using the wrong key when I started the game.

here's a list i typed up for another topic (/13/c0/92488/1.html).

CURRENT GUIS ACCESSIBILITIES from...
(C=cameraview; M=mouseview; !!!=gui holes
click: c: TOUCH; m: TOUCH
double-click: c: none; m: none
command-click: c: PIEMENU; m: NO piemenu !!!
option-click: c: object+spin/zoom; m: control movable objects; UNCOUPLE THE MOUSE FROM CENTER
control-click: c: control movable objs; m: control movable objects
shift-click: c: none; m: control movable objects

command-option: c: PIEMENU; m: none
command-contrl: c: PIEMENU; m: none
command-shift: c: PIEMENU; m: none

option-control: c: object+spin/plane; m: control movable objects
option-shift: c: object+spin/zoom; m: control movable objects (dupe of option only)

control-shift: c: rotate movable objects; m: rotate movable objects

(note that when i say 'none', i mean no observable effect from my experiments. please correct me if i'm wrong on any of them.)