Seth Kurtzberg wrote:
>
> On my system the wheel scrolls the viewer window. What would be more
> convenient is if the wheel could scroll the windows on the desktop, as if you
> were actually on the machine. I don't know whether anyone has looked at how
> this might be handled...
Seth,
About 4 years ago I got (for win95) something in this direction.
It is called Tab2Desk.exe (freeware I think).
With it I can do an alt-tab and not only rotate through the
windows BUT also get to the desktop with all the other
windows hidden.
Sometimes authors share their code. Then if you can find a
"component" that reads the scroll wheel, it would be about,
what, half an hour to piece that together :)
Regards,
Curt
P.S. I run about four machines at once here, and use a $22
switch to use one monitor and one keyboard. For $22 it does
not handle the mice, so, heck, four (labeled) mice kicking around.
Now. When the keyboard is switched, it causes its microprocessor
(remember -- the master computer on a PC is the keyboard -- NOT
the main processor -- I always found that amusing) to do a reset
and it losses the typematic settings (again -- established by
programming the keyboard when the BIOS starts up by special
codes TO the keyboard.)
I found it easy enough to write a DOS TSR, watch the keyboard
port, see the codes that the keyboard sends when it is reset,
and then resend the typematic codes to restore the keyboard !
But, I looked into this under NT. One needs to build a keyboard
"device shim." Now, no longer allowed to look directly at
the keyboard port (60), you have to get in-between the keyboard
handler and the OS.
I looked at the DDK and the C code for the keyboard device
handler. Just too much code to tackle!
And hard to find. It is under a directory called I8042
And why is it called that? Truly arcane -- because it is
the Intel 8042 chip on the PC board that is the slave chip
to the keyboard's microprocessor !
Yeah, off topic !
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