I’m also interested in discussing the following with Mac users. It appears that VASSAL up to 3.2.17 has run as follows on the Mac:
(1) Command + Left Click on e.g. a piece brought up context menu
(2) Control + Left Click did NOT bring up a context menu
(3) You could also bring up context menus by right+clicking (if have a two-button mouse, or if you have your touchpad set up for clicking-with-two-fingers is a right click or clicking-in-right-corner is a right click or whatever)
(4) Meanwhile the shortcut keys for doing things on a piece tend to be activated by CONTROL + C (Rather than, say, COMMAND + C)
Now my impression, both from my moderate casual use of Macs and all my reading on the subject is that this “isn’t really how it ought to work” from a Mac interface point of view. It seems to be the case that the “proper” Mac interface would be:
(1) CONTROL + Left Click brings up a context menu.
(2) Command + Left Click, by contrast, should toggle a piece in and out of the current selection
(3) COMMAND + C (and other letters and combos) should typically activate the shortcuts on pieces, CONTROL should not.
Could some veteran Mac users please confirm that this is “how Mac interfaces are supposed to work”?
Obviously we’d want some kind of “compatibility mode” where if you want to keep the 3-2-17 layout you can keep it now that VASSAL has trained it to you for a decade, but it seems like we should offer and default to a “proper, comfortable Mac interface”.
Please correct anything I’m wrong about.
Brian