Most mice operate in a "staged" manner; that is, upon power-up even the most
sophisticated mouse emulates a basic two button affair, until software jumps
through a series of hoops to elevate its capabilities by sending a series of
magic sequences of commands. The problem is that most applications only go as
far as elevating the mouse to three button operation (if that - some perform no
"elevation" at all, and leave you stuck with the most basic mouse mode) and
never even attempt to activate wheel mode. Regardless of mode, however, the
PS/2 interrupt (at least for PS/2 mice) fires the same way.
This is done because an interface to the enhanced features of advanced mice was
never standardized, so manufacturers made do with existing commands, but simply
gave special significance to certain sequences of them which would not normally
occur in typical application usage. One such example is setting the mouse
acceleration with a specific series of values instead of the usual procedure of
directly setting the desired acceleration value directly and leaving it at that.
On Friday, January 21st, 2022 at 10:43 AM, Travis Siegel tsie...@softcon.com
wrote:
> I believe the problem with the scroll wheel is that it doesn't generate
>
> an interrupt, so if the mouse driver doesn't specifically look for the
>
> scrool wheel, there's no way for the computer or operating system to
>
> know that it is being used. I had a similar problem under windows
>
> several years ago, and the solution was to turn off one of the settings
>
> in the dos prompt configuration. That also allowed right clicking within
>
> the dos prompt, (not just on the dos application, so you could select
>
> paste, copy and such), but actually have the right click be passed to
>
> the dos application. That particular configuration item has since
>
> stopped working as it used to. But, on the other hand, it's really not
>
> necessary anymore, since a right click does the proper thing now. I have
>
> no idea if there's an equivalent option for dos mouse drivers, but I do
>
> know if the driver doesn't support scroll wheels, then your mouse won't
>
> respond to the wheel, no matter how much you move it or click it.
>
> Perhaps there's a command line parameter to activate the scroll wheel on
>
> your particular driver. I've never used the cute mouse driver, so can't
>
> say if it does have such a parameter or not.
>
> On 1/21/2022 7:25 AM, Björn Morell wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The progs I found which can use scroll wheel
>>
>> 4Dos; Help,Select and History
>>
>> Syschk
>>
>> MPXplay
>>
>> I have tried wheelk butit does not make any difference in any program
>>
>> I tried,
>>
>> I really would love for it to work in File Wizard.
>>
>> Have any of you found other programs or ways there scroll mouse works ?
>>
>> Bear
>>
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