RE: mouse wheel support question

[Thomas Chadwick]

Here's something easy to try.  Bring up the X server, then run "xev" and 
move the scroll-wheel.  Do you see any Button 4 or Button 5 messages?  If 
so, then the server supports them.  If not, it doesn't.

From: Daren Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: mouse wheel support question
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:44:50 -0500
I've implemented a feature for an application that uses the mouse wheel on
the Windows.
I need to code it for XWindows. From what I have read so far the wheel 
sends
mouse button
presses of 4 and 5 in Xwindows.

I'm not sure if trying to test through Cygwin is
not letting me detect the messages in XWindows or if there is another
reason.  I found that for XFree86 4.2 "The mouse driver now has support
for mouse wheel emulation."
I tried xdyinfo | grep release
to figure out which version of XFree86 I'm running...
it returned "vender release number : 40200000
So do I need to update my Xfree86 version ?

Thanks,
dAren
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