[SDL] getting mouse wheel states

John Silicon jsilicon at earthlink.net
Thu Mar 9 19:08:45 PST 2006


zed zeek wrote:
> but it works for mouse button left,right + middle
> i assume im using it right (arent i?) if not how should it be used.
>   
 From the code, it looks like you're trying to find out if the mouse 
wheel is being 'held down' in its 'up' state, which doesn't make too 
much sense on my end -- perhaps you're trying to get something else, but 
if so, it wasn't clear from the what exactly you're trying to get.  Can 
you explain what you're trying to do?

Mouse wheel movements are never in a 'held down' state -- the operating 
system, mouse, and/or driver is just sending a 'down' event (I assume 
they tend to send an immediate 'up' event too, but I didn't verify it) 
every time the wheel has moved a significant amount.

Come to think of it, the only way I can think of to really 'hold down' a 
mouse wheel movement for any significant amount of time would be to take 
a Dremel Tool to it.

- Silicon





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