[MonoDevelop] Adding external references in Monodevelop on Mac OS X

[Sandy Armstrong]

On 01/07/2009 12:20 PM, Michael Hutchinson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Dr. Hubert Dichtl<dichtl at alphaport.de>  wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am new in this forum. I have a problem with Monodevelp on a Mac OS X
>> system. While the simple "Hello World" program runs perfect, I am not able
>> to add a reference to an external Library (which can than be integrated in
>> the source code with the "using" statement). In the project window the node
>> "references" with the sub note "System" appears. Unfortunately, I am not
>> able to add further external references. In an artikel on the
>> monodevelop-homepage I read that I have to "right click" the reference node
>> to add further references. When I click the reference node in the project
>> window (with and without the CTRL-key) nothing happens. How can I reach the
>> menue to edit or add references? Has anyone a solution or an idea?
>
> I'm not a Mac user, but as far as I know GTK on the mac doesn't yet
> convert ctrl-click to right-click. Hence it's not possible to access
> context menus with a one-button mouse.

That being said, the mouse [1] that Apple ships these days, though it 
appears to be a one-button mouse, actually works as a two-button mouse 
and works as expected with MonoDevelop.  So if you have a recent Mac, 
that might work for you.

Sandy

[1] http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/