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29 Jul 2024 08:22:11 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Mouse wheel problem under Windows XP  
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Date: 13 Jun 2002 14:56:29
Message: <3d0bec79.72395781@news.povray.org>
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 17:50:44 +0200, "Gilles Tran" <tra### [at] inapginrafr>
wrote:

>Running Povray RC6 Intel under Windows XP Home Edition (Pentium 4), I came
>upon this little problem : the mouse wheel doesn't work (no scrolling) when
>several files are open in the Povray editor. It works as expected when only
>one file is open, and it works always as expected under Windows NT. It took
>me a while to figure out this one, as I believed at first that the problem
>was random.

Having NT at work and XP at home with scroll mice has taught me that
the defaults are different under NT vs XP. In NT the window under the
mouse gets focus automatically, under XP you have to have the window
in front for the scroll function to work!

/Erkki


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