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From: Frank da Cruz <fdc@columbia.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: mouse scroll wheel in Kermit 95?
Date: 1 Mar 2006 15:39:47 GMT
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On 2006-02-25, Mark Sapiro <slash_dev_slash_null_2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
: tomviolin wrote:
:>
:> Are there any special settings I can make in either the mouse driver or
:> in Kermit 95 to make this work? This would be very nice to have.
:
: Good question. I've never given this much thought, but I have a mouse
: with a wheel that works in most windows apps, but apparently not in
: k95g...
:
I confess, all this is a mystery to me. The behavior is different from one
machine to another. I have two PCs in my office, both with K95G 2.1.3 and
Windows XP. The mouse wheel works fine in Kermit on one of them (machine A),
and not at all on the other (B). This is clearly a Windows issue and not a
Kermit one. If Windows feeds Kermit the mouse wheel events, Kermit knows what
to do with them. The Kermit scrolling that you see when the mouse wheel does
work is being done by Kermit itself.
I have Photoshop on the same two machines, and the same is true there. The
mouse wheel works as expected on machine A (e.g. for scrolling an enlarged
image vertically) but not at all on machine B. Yet the wheel works fine on
Macnine B in other applications such as IE and Firefox.
: show mouse [says]:
:
: Button Count: 2
: ...
: Button 3 Double-Click = Kverb: \Kpaste
:
My machine A says the same thing, yet the wheel button does something --
"Autoscroll". Going into the Mouse folder of the Control Panel, I see that's
exactly what it's configured to do. You can change this in the Mouse
Properties dialog, but it seems you can't assign "Click" to it because Click
can only be assigned to one button and it's already assigned to Button 1. The
same is true for the thumb buttons on (e.g.) the InteliMouse Explorer. Thus
it would seem to be impossible to program buttons 3 or above in Kermit because
Windows won't let them generate a simple click event.
What about the turning the wheel. Go to the Wheel tab in the Mouse Properties
dialog ... Hmmm, well this is a mystery. I have entirely different Mouse
Properties dialogs on the two machines, even though the OS and patch level
are identical, and the machines are both Dell. Go figure.
On the machine where wheel scrolling works, the Wheel tab has a "Wheel
Troubleshooter" section: "Click Troubleshooter if the wheel does not work as
expected". It also has an "Advanced" button.
On the (newer) machine B, where wheel scrolling doesn't work, there are no
such features on the Wheel tab. Perfect.
Maybe this information will provide some clues to someone who understands
Windows better than I do.
- Frank