Right click in OSX

[gallygaskins]

Hi,

I think that the right-click issue with single-button Mac mice needs more attention. Even as an experienced Mac user, it took me a couple of hours to pick my way through manuals, forum postings and so on to arrive at a solution (below). For newcomers to PS (and perhaps to Macs as well), this is an unneccessary and frustrating obstacle to getting started, as you cannot begin to interact with objects or NPCs without contextual menus. To my mind, telling people to get a two-button mouse is not helpful - everything else in the Mac world works with a single mouse button and always has.

I suggest that:

1. Future Mac versions of the application should automatically recognize Ctrl+Left click as being equivalent to Right click in all circumstances, as is the case with all well-behaved Mac applications.

2. In the meantime, I suggest a sticky in this forum that deals specifically with the issue, so that new users are discomfited as little as possible.

In case it helps anyone , my solution was:

1. Open Options
2. Select Controls > Mouse
3. In the line Selection > ContextMenu, perform a Ctrl+Left click on the "set" button
4. Click Save.

Now you can talk to Harnquist 

Regards,
-norman-

[Cha0s]

It really isn't that hard to figure out (well, last I recall at least), though I do agree that there should be a default setup. For the record, you can actually talk to Harnquist without contextual menus.

[gallygaskins]

My point is that it shouldn't be necessary to figure anything out at all - there's quite enough figuring out to do in the game as it is.

[Janner]

  Gentle reminder, this is a game in progress. Also not only for Mac.

[gallygaskins]

I'm wasn't attacking anybody - I was just making a suggestion to improve the game for one section of its players. What else is this forum for?

-norman-

[Janner]

 Sorry was not implying you were, the vast majority working on this is PC, so one button mouse is alien to them.

 Look at this link, might explain better. http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=23808.0

[gallygaskins]

Yes, I understand that, and I reckon that the port to Mac is very well done - this is the only Mac-specific problem that I've noticed. Incidentally (as someone else has pointed out in the forums), my fix does not work for Shortcut labels, so I have yet to find a way to create or modify them. Any ideas?

[Janner]

 To do it manually open planeshift folder then data then options. control click shortcutcommands.xml. chose open with other then find and click on TextEdit.

So you know  what to type my first 3 look like this.

<shortcuts>
    <shortcut0 name="Stuck">/unstick</shortcut0>
    <shortcut1 name="Greet">/greet</shortcut1>
    <shortcut2 name="Help">/advisormode on</shortcut2>
The Stuck. Greet. Help, are the labels you see, rest is the command.

[gallygaskins]

Nice hack - thanks 

-norman-

[Tiran]

I'm on a MacBook Pro with the double contact right-click method, and it seems to work fine. My question about doing it with a one-button mouse is if the standard Command-Click method of right clicking works or not in Planeshift. I've not tried it myself, but that's how you normally get two button functionality.

[Janner]

 Double click works for some things, example do it on NPC trader and trade box opens, but forge etc., no.
Command-Click, no.

[Gerk]

Thanks for the xml file tip, that's very halpful, was about the only thing I haven't worked around without the right click so far   This will make life easier when I'm on the road with my powerbook