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mouse wheel issue

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Keith G Hicks

Flightless Bird
OE and O2003 (and earlier versions) seem to know which panel in the program
you have your mouse over when you roll the mouse wheel. You don't have to
click into the panel to tell it. For example, if you have Outlook open and
you hold your mouse pointer over the mail folders panel and *without*
clicking into it you move the wheel, the folders scroll up and down. Then if
you move over to the panel that shows what's in one fo the folders (inbox
for example) and again *without* clicking into that panel, moving the wheel
again scrolls the contents of that panel, not the one you were in before.
There are other programs that do this as well. However, this is NOT the case
with Windows Explorer which I use all day long. It's very annoying that you
have to click into the panel on the right that shows the tree of folders in
order for the wheel to scroll that area. It would seem that if MS can make O
and OE behave properly then they could do the same with W.E. Seems logical
but oh well. Maybe this is fixed in 7? It would just be nice if it were a
consistent behavior in software that comes from the same company.
 
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David B.

Flightless Bird
That is a function of the mouse driver, not the various applications or
Windows, check your mouse settings in control panel.

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"Keith G Hicks" <krh@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:ugO5z16kKHA.4836@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> OE and O2003 (and earlier versions) seem to know which panel in the
> program you have your mouse over when you roll the mouse wheel. You don't
> have to click into the panel to tell it. For example, if you have Outlook
> open and you hold your mouse pointer over the mail folders panel and
> *without* clicking into it you move the wheel, the folders scroll up and
> down. Then if you move over to the panel that shows what's in one fo the
> folders (inbox for example) and again *without* clicking into that panel,
> moving the wheel again scrolls the contents of that panel, not the one you
> were in before. There are other programs that do this as well. However,
> this is NOT the case with Windows Explorer which I use all day long. It's
> very annoying that you have to click into the panel on the right that
> shows the tree of folders in order for the wheel to scroll that area. It
> would seem that if MS can make O and OE behave properly then they could do
> the same with W.E. Seems logical but oh well. Maybe this is fixed in 7?
> It would just be nice if it were a consistent behavior in software that
> comes from the same company.
>
 
K

Keith G Hicks

Flightless Bird
I would say that cannot be true. If it behaves one way in one app and a
different way in another then it is certainly how the specific app is
responding to the messaging system. Windows Explorer must have been written
to ignore the position of the mouse pointer when the wheel is turned. There
are no settigns in teh mouse driver for specifying how specific applciations
behave in response to teh wheel. There is a general wheel setting but
nothign that specifies what I am talking about.


"David B." <mail@nomail.net> wrote in message
news:ubKzNN7kKHA.5608@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> That is a function of the mouse driver, not the various applications or
> Windows, check your mouse settings in control panel.
>
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> "Keith G Hicks" <krh@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:ugO5z16kKHA.4836@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> OE and O2003 (and earlier versions) seem to know which panel in the
>> program you have your mouse over when you roll the mouse wheel. You don't
>> have to click into the panel to tell it. For example, if you have Outlook
>> open and you hold your mouse pointer over the mail folders panel and
>> *without* clicking into it you move the wheel, the folders scroll up and
>> down. Then if you move over to the panel that shows what's in one fo the
>> folders (inbox for example) and again *without* clicking into that panel,
>> moving the wheel again scrolls the contents of that panel, not the one
>> you were in before. There are other programs that do this as well.
>> However, this is NOT the case with Windows Explorer which I use all day
>> long. It's very annoying that you have to click into the panel on the
>> right that shows the tree of folders in order for the wheel to scroll
>> that area. It would seem that if MS can make O and OE behave properly
>> then they could do the same with W.E. Seems logical but oh well. Maybe
>> this is fixed in 7? It would just be nice if it were a consistent
>> behavior in software that comes from the same company.
>>

>
 
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David B.

Flightless Bird
It's 100% true, if you do a plain jane install of Windows XP you have to
click on a window to get focus in order to scroll, the ability to scroll by
just having the cursor over a window is controlled by the mouse driver, I've
had this exact setting (which I set to scroll only by moving the curser over
the window) on my last 3 laptops, and the setting isn't available until you
install the proper drivers for your hardware.

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"Keith G Hicks" <krh@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:u$nILb7kKHA.3476@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>I would say that cannot be true. If it behaves one way in one app and a
>different way in another then it is certainly how the specific app is
>responding to the messaging system. Windows Explorer must have been written
>to ignore the position of the mouse pointer when the wheel is turned. There
>are no settigns in teh mouse driver for specifying how specific
>applciations behave in response to teh wheel. There is a general wheel
>setting but nothign that specifies what I am talking about.
>
>
> "David B." <mail@nomail.net> wrote in message
> news:ubKzNN7kKHA.5608@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> That is a function of the mouse driver, not the various applications or
>> Windows, check your mouse settings in control panel.
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> --
>> "Keith G Hicks" <krh@comcast.net> wrote in message
>> news:ugO5z16kKHA.4836@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> OE and O2003 (and earlier versions) seem to know which panel in the
>>> program you have your mouse over when you roll the mouse wheel. You
>>> don't have to click into the panel to tell it. For example, if you have
>>> Outlook open and you hold your mouse pointer over the mail folders panel
>>> and *without* clicking into it you move the wheel, the folders scroll up
>>> and down. Then if you move over to the panel that shows what's in one fo
>>> the folders (inbox for example) and again *without* clicking into that
>>> panel, moving the wheel again scrolls the contents of that panel, not
>>> the one you were in before. There are other programs that do this as
>>> well. However, this is NOT the case with Windows Explorer which I use
>>> all day long. It's very annoying that you have to click into the panel
>>> on the right that shows the tree of folders in order for the wheel to
>>> scroll that area. It would seem that if MS can make O and OE behave
>>> properly then they could do the same with W.E. Seems logical but oh
>>> well. Maybe this is fixed in 7? It would just be nice if it were a
>>> consistent behavior in software that comes from the same company.
>>>

>>

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