[racket-dev] Windows horizontal mouse wheel

From: Stephen Chang (stchang at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Sun Apr 3 15:12:29 EDT 2011

Ok, my mouse must not be advanced enough. I'll see if I can find one.



On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> 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".
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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