There's much simpler way - press the space (or whatever key you remapped it to). It closes all "special" windows. Stas. On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, William Balcerski wrote: > Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:20:13 -0800 (PST) > From: William Balcerski <williamb at its.caltech.edu> > Reply-To: Netrek Development Mailing List <netrek-dev at us.netrek.org> > To: Netrek Development Mailing List <netrek-dev at us.netrek.org> > Subject: Re: [netrek-dev] netrek xp mouse problem > > > I tried to fire up the netrek xp mod client yesterday, > > since I was at a windows box and I hadn't seen it yet. > > > I would use XP 2006, XP mod is no longer being updated. Of course I'm > biased on this issue. > > > Problem: > > the windows box I was using had a two-button mouse, > > with no way to generate a middle click. (no, pressing > > both buttons at once didn't do it, nor any combination of > > buttons + ctrl, alt, shift, windows, and startmenu keys). > > > > Can there be a way to turn that thing off, either a close > > button to click on, or having it also close via a shift-click? > > > > --akb > > > What John said about editing netrekrc is the best way. The other way is > to open your options menu (shift-o), and then navigate to page 4, the info > menu. Then click on the option for "Show hints window". This will > disable hints window for your current session only, though. Adding > shift-right click close functionality might be something I add, there are > a bunch of windows that should all be able to be closed in an easy > fashion..hint window, help window, ping window. Shift-right click is > probably the way I will go, since I often hear complaints from people > without middle mouse buttons. > > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > netrek-dev mailing list > netrek-dev at us.netrek.org > http://mailman.us.netrek.org/mailman/listinfo/netrek-dev >