[sdiy] (OT)DSPIC compiler for MPLABX-IDE on MAC OSX?

[Ingo Debus]

Am 01.05.2012 um 19:54 schrieb Tom Wiltshire:

> On 1 May 2012, at 18:33, KA4HJH wrote:
> 
>>> I had a try, but struggled enough to use MPLAB-X on a computer with only
>>> one mouse button. In theory, it should be simple enough to set up a key
>>> combination for right-click or whatever, but in practice I kept finding it
>>> conflicted and left me with something else I couldn't do, got frustrated,
>>> and gave up.
>> 
>> Control-click is the same as right-click. Apple's last two mice did a
>> right-click fairly well but before that you had to get something
>> third-party. Or control-click. It makes using my old iBook a pain.
> 
> If it was that simple, I'd probably have got it. I think MPLAB uses control click for something else, so you're still stuffed since you can't do a control-right-click. Or maybe now I'm getting confused with the Diptrace X version which I installed around the same time...

Couldn't you use a plain cheap two-button+wheel mouse? When working with Eagle 5 on my Mac I did this all the time.

With Eagle 6, working with the MacBook track pad is much nicer than with a mouse.

Ingo