wish: support for mouse scroll button

[Daniel Corbier]

Computers these days come with a mouse that has a circular
button in the middle that you can roll in order to scroll
up & down. With this, you can easily scroll without moving
the mouse itself. This is very convenient. Browsers like
IE use this, and other editors are catching up. It would be
nice if PB's IDE supported this.

In addition to this, when I click on the middle button first,
(you can press the circle like a button) I can then scroll
faster, and sideways as well, with IE. Web pages typically
aren't too long from top to bottom so I'm not too familiar
with this second feature. But it would seem ideal for an IDE
with lots of lines of code.

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Daniel Corbier
UCalc Fast Math Parser
http://www.ucalc.com

[Frank Kelley]

Hey, Daniel:

The PB IDE already supports the scroll wheel (at least on my Microsoft mouse). I believe the support is a function of Windows itself (if you have the correct mouse driver, any Windows app responds to the scroll wheel).

If I hold click the scroll wheel, I can navigate side to side, as you describe. Perhaps you need an updated mouse driver?

Frank

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[Paul Dwyer]

I'm surprised to hear that Frank,

I have my copy of PB installed on my Home PC, my Work PC and my Laptop (hope I'm not in breach of license) and none of them respond to any of my wheel mouses-mice, even my intelli-eye mouse. Those OS's are Win2k x 2 and Win98j.
All other application work fine with them though.

I'd like this to work for scrolling though code as it has become a habbit and is annoying when it no longer works.




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Paul Dwyer
Network Engineer
Aussie in Tokyo
(Paul282 at VB-World)

[Sven Blumenstein]

I also have Win2K with an IntelliEye Mouse. I've IntelliPoint Software v3.x installed and it run fine! Scrolling with the wheel is no problem in the PB IDE. Perhaps, you've removed the IntelliPoint Software from Start up Folder / Registry? (look at your Taskbar for a little white mouse). I've you've done so, place a shortcut to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Hardware\Mouse\point32.exe" in your Start Up Folder, restart Windows and try to use your wheel

regards,
Sven

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[Daniel Corbier]

I have a bunch of Microsoft subdirectories under Program Files.
But I don't see one on my system named Microsoft Hardware. I
did a search for point*.exe as well on my HD, but it turned up
nothing. I'm using Windows 98. Perhaps that's why. Has any
one gotten the mouse scrolling to work with Windows 98?

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Daniel Corbier
UCalc Fast Math Parser
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[Sven Blumenstein]

Hmm... I think, installing the IntelliPoint Driver could help. Normally it comes with your Mouse on a CD. Or download it from

http://download.microsoft.com/downlo.../en-us/eng.exe
(english language version)

Download Page for other languages:
http://www.microsoft.com/mouse/drive...6redirect%3Dno



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[Tom Hanlin]

Curiously, when Microsoft added mouse wheel support to Windows, they
did it through a new set of messages rather than integrating support
into the existing messages. So, in order to take advantage of mouse
wheels, it is necessary to rewrite your programs! It is not terribly
difficult to do so and I imagine the PowerBASIC IDE will support the
mouse wheel in a future release.

In the meantime, there are some utilities around which do what
Microsoft should have done to begin with, and translate the custom
mouse wheel messages to more traditional messages. That is, they let
ordinary programs see the mouse wheel automatically. It sounds like
the IntelliPoint utility now includes this support. If not, I recall
seeing at least one inexpensive shareware utility for the purpose. A
scan of zdnet's file downloads should turn up something.

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff

[Semen Matusovski]

i added wm_mousewheel into "scroll ddt" code http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pb...ad.php?t=22912

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[Charles Dietz]

I use Windows 98 SE and a cheap Microsoft mouse with a wheel. The PB/DLL 6.0
IDE scrolls vertically using my mouse wheel. Also, listboxes created by the
program scroll vertically using my mouse wheel. To my knowledge, I haven't
had to do anything special.

The wheel of my mouse doesn't click, it just spins. And I can't scroll horizontally.
Maybe you guys are speaking only of a more exotic mouse than what I have.


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[Semen Matusovski]

Charles --
I don't believe that PB/IDE understands WM_MOUSEWHEEL.
It looks that a driver of your mouse sends WM_VSCROLL.
Not sure that it sends WM_MOUSEWHEEL also.

In Logitech optic mouse (which I use w/o any external driver), a wheel is combined with middle button
(two buttons + wheel).
If your mouse has a middle button and you want to test my sample, press a middle button and rotate a wheel.

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[Paul Dwyer]

Hey Sven,

It worked !!!!!

I can use the wheel mouse in PB now that I installed that software driver from MS


Thanks a million

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Paul Dwyer
Network Engineer
Aussie in Tokyo
(Paul282 at VB-World)