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

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Mon Feb 25 22:52:13 UTC 2002


On Monday 25 February 2002 12:45 pm, Markus Fritsche wrote:
> > This would be better than the current scheme used in the Unix (and
>
> Windows?)
>
> > VMs for the scroll wheel, which send Up or Down keystrokes.
>
> Correct me, if I'm wrong, but with XFree86, the mouse wheel becomes
> button 4 and 5. If you're using imwheel, the mousewheel emulates up-
> and down keystrokes.

Why bother using imwheel? 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.

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Ned Konz
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