Automate Your Input Devices
We’ve talked about your keyboard already, and we return to it in several future chapters. But I want to take a moment to talk about other input devices, such as the one you use to move your pointer, as well as game controllers and other special-use input devices.
Remember when every Mac came with a one-button mouse? Now buttonless multi-touch trackpads and Magic Mice (with no visible buttons) are de rigueur, but it’s still easy to find third-party mice, trackballs, and other input devices with numerous configurable buttons, wheels, and other controls. Even Apple’s minimalist pointing devices can be configured to do special things with gestures and combinations of modifier keys and clicks.
Every extra button or control ...
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