No scroll wheel (newbie stuff)?

[Alex Rice]

On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 11:24  AM, Ken Norris (dialup) wrote:

> ??? Are you saying RR vertical scrollbars do not support scrollwheels? 
> I
> figured the Mac versions would support mouse scrollwheels through the 
> OS and
> ordinary drivers, same PC's with Windows, just like virtually all other
> software.
>
> I was thinking scrollwheel support would be native to RR, but maybe 
> needs to
> be switched on somewhere. If it isn't it certainly ought to be, because
> everyone I know uses the scrollwheel all the time. It's an everyday 
> part of
> computing.
>
> Just thinking out loud.

I agree it should be added, because I use a scrollwheel too. However I 
wouldn't take it for granted that virtually all other software supports 
scrollwheels. That's like saying all games should support 
force-feedback joysticks. ;-)

When you get into cross-platform development, there is even less 
support for scrollwheels. It takes time for them to catch up with new 
hardware. For example Java did not support scroll-wheels until JDK 1.4. 
AFAIK Flash, Realbasic, and others may not support scrollwheels yet 
either.

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
alrice at ARCplanning.com
alrice at swcp.com