No scroll wheel (newbie stuff)?

[Ken Norris (dialup)]

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> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:56:58 -0700 (MST)
> From: Scott Raney <raney at metacard.com>
> Subject: Re: No scroll wheel (newbie stuff)?

>>> Mouse wheels *do* work on Win32, MacOS, and Linux systems because
>>> there is OS API support for this hardware feature on these platforms.
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>> One must be true and the other not. Which is which?
> 
> Apologies, my mistake.  That line should be:
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>>> Mouse wheels *do* work on Win32, MacOS X, and Linux systems because
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OK, got it. Thanks. Mac OS 8.x-9.x doesn not have native (API) mouswheel
support, but Win32, Mac OSX, and Linux systems do.

And there is a possible workaround. Jacque wrote:
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> However, I think you can add the capability yourself with a
> script. You'll need to trap rawKeyDown, check to see if the mousecontrol
> is a field, and if so, set its scroll appropriately. The keycode for
> scrolling up is 65309, for scrolling down it is 65308.

> This won't work if no keycodes are sent when the wheel is scrolled
> (which someone reported earlier) but I am pretty sure I had it working
> in OS 9. You'll have to do some tests.
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I guess I'll take a shot. It might be a challenge to make it work.

All the best,
Ken N.