mac os-x -> Need multiple button mice with scroll wheel

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Tue Feb 26 18:21:50 UTC 2002


>On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Ned Konz wrote:
>
>  > The wheel support I added to the Unix VM just gets button 4 or 5 events
>>  from X and passes them up to the image as Up or Down keystroke events,
>>  since there was no representation of mouse wheel actions in the image.
>
>Oops! You added that, too? In my version (that made it into Ian's code at
>some point) the wheel sends ctrl+up/down, not just up/down keystrokes, to
>distinguish them from normal key presses ...
>
>John: the keyboard events work well even in MVC, I'm not sure we really
>need to invent new events ...
>
>-- Bert

mmm seems we need to standardize this?

Also I'm not sending new events, I am just adding additional data to 
the existing mouse event. This of course doesn't help older images 
unless you file in a change set. Also I see in another note on this 
topic doing keystrokes causes focus problems in X?


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