Re: Binding a command to the down-event of a toolbar button

[M Jared Finder]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     > You're missing the point.  You're proposing we implement the capacity
>     > to provide a certain kind of GUI feature.  Before we do that, I want
>     > to know whether users expect or want that kind of feature in GUIs.  If
>     > they don't, let's save the trouble of writing and maintaining code to
>     > implement it.
>
>     Yes, click and drag and mouse-2, mouse-3 are used in UIs.
>
> That is not the question.
>
> The question is whether other UIs make a distinction of down and up
> clicks on tool bars.  And what UI design recommendations say about it.

Consider me completely confused then.

Are you saying you'd want to toolbars to support mouse-1 and 
drag-mouse-1 (as well as the same events for other mouse buttons), but 
*not* down-mouse-1?  Why?  By implementing drag, wouldn't you end up 
implementing down as well?

  -- MJF