[racket-dev] Windows horizontal mouse wheel

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 3 15:03:48 EDT 2011

At Sun, 3 Apr 2011 13:52:14 -0400, Stephen Chang wrote:
> Is this different from clicking and dragging the wheel button around?

Yes, a horizontal mouse wheel would be different. It would be the same
as two-finger scrolling horizonally, I assume, if trackpads support
that. (Maybe it would work in VirtualBox on my Mac if I ran Windows 7
instead of XP).


> Because that seems to work. It doesnt say left or right though, just
> "MIDDLE dragging moving".
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> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> > The `racket/gui' library now supports horizontal mouse-wheel events,
> > but I don't have a Windows machine with a mouse that support horizontal
> > wheel events. As likely as not, I've implemented it backwards for Win32
> > (i.e., it's tricky atbest to match positive/negative with left/right
> > based on the docs).
> >
> > Can someone who does have such a Windows mouse run
> >
> >  racket -l tests/gracket/showkey
> >
> > with the latest and tell me whether horizontal wheel events are correct
> > or backwards?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Matthew
> >
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