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Why do mice need to make the "click"? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 weeks ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/hardware@programming.dev

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Isn't a "click" just physically making two connectors touch so that a circuit is made to send the signal of an action? There doesn't have to be any noise associated does there?

For example, if we used 2 springs, one to hold up the button and another to make the contact with the circuit, the click would be silent. Or maybe something already exists that I can swap out into my mouse?

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[–] andioop@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

I try to click on something and it doesn't react.

Is this because I failed to execute the click (has happened, especially on laptop touchpads), or because the site is unresponsive/buggy?

As a person not too familiar with hardware or what goes into mouse creation, I have always taken the "click" sound as something that can only happen when I actually successfully execute the click. That I made those two connectors touch. (Of course, the OS might drop it and the software part does not work, but I do take it as I made all the physical things that need to happen to make a click happen.) So if I get to hear the "click" on a mouse I know for sure if I clicked or not, if it's human error or not in the problem I posed. If I don't I'm going to be clicking a lot more times to ensure I got a real click through, because I am not sure if I actually managed to click.