The Old New Thing

The wrong way to check whether the mouse buttons have been swapped

October 17, 2007 Oct 17, 2007 10/17/07

Raymond Chen

Back in the late 1990's, the window manager team received a bug that said that sometimes the mouse button state got messed up and the computer acted as if the buttons were stuck down. Further investigation revealed that it occurred only when one particular program was running, and only if the user had enabled mouse button swapping. The ...