- Side-to-side scrolling on a regular wheel mouse...
- Posted by Syrist on January 13th, 2006
Does anybody know how to perform regular side-to-side scrolling using a
regular wheel mouse? Perhaps using some keyboard key & mouse wheel combo or
some third party program? I tried those side-to-side tilt wheel mice and
they seriously lack accuracy, speed and control.
It would be nice if I could press SHIFT and rotate the wheel to get side
scrolling.
Could something be written in VB to do this?
-Pete
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- Posted by John McGaw on January 13th, 2006
Syrist wrote:
http://www.dirfile.com/my_scroll.htm was the first result returned when
I asked Google about this. There may be others but I didn't look beyond
the first hit.
--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]
http://johnmcgaw.com
- Posted by Sleepy on January 13th, 2006
"Syrist" <syrist@rogers.com> wrote in message
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have you tried pressing the mousewheel button to change the cursor then pan
left/right?
- Posted by MShoop on January 13th, 2006
I know this is not what you want to hear, but you might as well give up on
the side scrolling, especially if you are trying it for web-browsing. I have
tried it with MS mouse, Logitech mouse, two types of thumbpads and all with
the company supplied drivers and with MS drivers. The side scrolling will
work with some webpages and mostly none of them--the html and webdesign has
alot to do with that. Even if you get the speed right on one certain
website, when you try to use side scrolling in applications, such as Word,
it will either not work, be too slow, or be too fast.
The most recent mouse, and worst one I have ever bought, is the Logitech
laser mouse. They are trying to cram all these features onto one little
device as a marketing tool, but they either make the mouse uncomfortable,
cause conflicts, or don't work at all.
"Syrist" <syrist@rogers.com> wrote in message
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- Posted by James Silverton on January 13th, 2006
MShoop wrote on Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:39:14 -0600:
M> The most recent mouse, and worst one I have ever bought, is
M> the Logitech laser mouse. They are trying to cram all these
M> features onto one little device as a marketing tool, but
M> they either make the mouse uncomfortable, cause conflicts,
M> or don't work at all.
??>>
IMHO and experience, side-to-side scrolling *does* work with the
Logitech laser mouse but I find the action rather clumsy and
prone to error and seldom, if ever, use it. There are 3 extra
buttons but I don't seem to use them either tho' I have found
that configuring the wheel to work for a double click is useful
since that's where my fingers are positioned.
James Silverton.
Potomac, Maryland.
