# Mac OSX and gitk right-click

2 messages from 2008-06-06 to 2008-06-07. Participants: Thomas Harning, Shawn O. Pearce.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13840

## Thomas Harning, 2008-06-06 22:44

Subject: Mac OSX and gitk right-click
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gitk doesn't appear to have right-click support in OSX, but  
gitgui-0.8.1 has it...

Thought I'd bring this up in case anybody has any fixes.  Currently  
digging through to see if I can make a quick fix...


-- 
Thomas Harning
TrustBearer Labs
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## Shawn O. Pearce, 2008-06-07 07:20

Subject: Re: Mac OSX and gitk right-click
Message-ID: <20080607072007.GB12896@spearce.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080607072007.GB12896%40spearce.org
In-Reply-To: <3215D250-73A0-422C-B104-2BE306778271@trustbearer.com>

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Thomas Harning <thomas.harning@trustbearer.com> wrote:
> gitk doesn't appear to have right-click support in OSX, but  
> gitgui-0.8.1 has it...

That's because git-gui has this procedure

proc bind_button3 {w cmd} {
    bind $w <Any-Button-3> $cmd
    if {[is_MacOSX]} {
        # Mac OS X sends Button-2 on right click through three-button mouse,
        # or through trackpad right-clicking (two-finger touch + click).
        bind $w <Any-Button-2> $cmd
        bind $w <Control-Button-1> $cmd
    }
}

and uses it to configure the binding for the "right-click" scripts
rather than calling "bind $w <Any-Button-3> ..." directly.  gitk
does the latter, and thus fails on Mac OS X.

I actually think its a bug in Tcl/Tk on Aqua that it doesn't treat
Control-Click as a right click action, or that right mouse click
is sent as button 2, but is 3 on ever other system.

-- 
Shawn.

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