This mouse replacement should also help compensate for the fact that it's devilishly difficult to click the left scroll button at the bottom of the Metro screen, because the Start menu keeps getting in the way.ĭon't know about you, but I tend to find myself scrolling left and right with the scroll wheel after I've accidentally clicked the wheel. Scrollwheel navigation: No doubt sensing the impending hue and cry over the anticipated displacement of the lower-right scroll button, the Consumer Preview beta will let you scroll left and right on the Metro screen by nudging your mouse's scroll wheel. At this point you can't click and drag the Metro background to make it scroll, so the only way to scroll right on a touchless PC (aside from using the left and right arrow keys and hopping from tile to tile) is to click the right scroll button or drag the lower window slider. Of course that's going to make it very difficult to hit the right scroll button with a mouse, but such is progress. Apparently the Consumer Preview will put a new button to the right of the right scroll button: Click on that button and you see all of your tiles lined up, ready to be clicked and dragged to new locations, or lassoed and given a group name. If you're using the Developer Preview, there's a right-scroll button at the far lower-right corner of the screen, to make it easier to scroll the Metro tiles right. (I'll rant about the phrase "semantic zoom" at a future date suffice it to say that Windows 8 uses the well-defined UI terminology in a decidedly odd way.)
Semantic zoom: Windows 8's new pinch-to-zoom-out gesture for the entire Metro tile area can be replicated with a mouse click in the far-lower-right corner of the screen. With that caveat, here are the new, improved mouse-enabled gestures said to be upcoming in the Consumer Preview: How TechRadar found out about the rest of the mousabilities isn't clear. Semantic Zoom with a mouse (see below) was part of Tami Reller's Windows 8 demo at CES a couple of weeks ago. They match up with screenshots of unreleased builds that leaked last month. Although TechRadar doesn't credit a Microsoft source by name and details about the next beta remain closely guarded state secrets, the report seems credible. Windows enthusiast site TechRadar posted details about Windows 8 mouse-and-pointer substitutes for tap-and-pinch gestures that the touch-enabled universe will take for granted.
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