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==Applications that support mouse chording== {{Dynamic list}} * [[Autodesk 3ds Max|3DS Max]] - Any action in the main UI that involves clicking and dragging can be cancelled by right clicking while left button is still held down. * [[Microstation]] - [[CAD software]], uses chording to snap to elements. * [[CATIA]] - [[Computer-aided design|CAD]]/[[Computer-aided manufacturing|CAM]]/[[Computer-aided engineering|CAE]] software, uses middle and left mouse button chording to zoom, pan and rotate screen representation * [[Acme (text editor)|Acme]] and [[Wily (text editor)|Wily]] text editors * [[Opera (web browser)]] * [[Vivaldi (web browser)]] * [[Maxthon]] * [[Blender (software)|Blender 3D]] * [[Plan 9 from Bell Labs]] * [[Oberon operating system]] * [[Sketchup]] * [[Valve Hammer Editor]] * [[Celestia]] - Pressing both mouse buttons allows the user to adjust distance from an object. * [[Minesweeper (Windows)]] - Pressing both mouse buttons clears around a square after the correct number of flags have been placed in the surrounding squares. * [[UDE]] * ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' * ''[[Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'' - The weapon aiming system in the PC version of ''San Andreas'' implements mouse chording, as it requires the user to hold the right mouse button to aim while clicking or holding the left button to fire a weapon or use an item, such as a [[camera]]. * ''[[Eve Online]]'' - Pressing both the left and right mouse buttons allows for an alternative method of camera control. * ''[[Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2]]'' - On the PC version of the game, by default the right mouse button must be held to take cover and the left mouse button to fire a weapon. * ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'' - On the PC version, holding both buttons activates dual casting, shield bashing, or a powerful flurry of attacks when dual-wielding melee weapons. * Any number of other [[first-person shooter]]s where the [[iron sights]] view or aiming down sights is mapped to the right mouse button. * ''[[Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order]]'' - On the PC version, once the player learns the lightsaber throw ability, they can use it by holding down the right mouse button to block, then clicking the left mouse button (used for a lightsaber attack by itself) to throw the lightsaber. Later in the game, they can perform a split saber attack by clicking with both mouse buttons simultaneously. * [[Symbolics]] [[Genera (operating system)]] - the user interface management system Dynamic Windows is fully object oriented. It remembers objects for all output. Output is mouse sensitive depending on context. A three-button mouse is supported and mouse buttons can be modified additionally with shift keys (shift, control, meta, shift-control, ...). A mouse documentation line at the bottom of the screen shows the available mouse commands for the object under the mouse cursor and is continuously updated.
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