alt/option left-click (how do i kill this?)

I use 3d software that requires you to hold option and left mouse button to rotate in the program. Any time i type in an app on my second monitor and come back to my 3d app and hit option-leftclick to start rotating around my previous program minimizes.. SOOoo annoying... I cannot find where to disable this.. Please, can anyone help?

Benjamin

8core Intel, Mac OS X (10.5.1), Mac Pro 8 Core

Posted on Jan 31, 2008 11:48 AM

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Jan 31, 2008 1:40 PM in response to aeroanimator

Do you need to hold Option before you click on the other application? The system will minimise the application if you hold option and click on the other app.

If you Apple+Tab to switch to the other app first or just click on the title bar you can then Option-click without any minimising.

You can't turn the option-click minimising thing off anywhere that I can see.

Jan 31, 2008 1:54 PM in response to John Sutherland

Yes i can just click the other app to bring attention too it and then opt-Lclick, I can also alt-tab to it, or expose' to it, or click it in the dock or any other ways to get to it before it hit opt-Lclick BUT... I'd rather just be able to disable it then move right from one program to another with out windows disappearing hehe. Sometimes i have two instances of my 3d app open and move right from one too the other and if I'm like i wanna see what the backside of this model in my other app looks like, instead of just moveing my mouse over the other app and opt-Lclicking to rotate it around, i have to bring attention too it first.. not the end of the world.. but u know.. just 1 thing i have to do that i don't need or want, and app switch like 1000 times a day, between chatting to remote co-workers and email etc etc, that it could probably add up and would just make life more easy.

Hum.. I just want a LITTLE more control over my mac... I wonder if there is mouse software that'll take control of those features and let me customize it.

Ben

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