Re: Scroll wheel events not working under WindowsXP

["Daniel Atallah" <daniel atallah gmail com>]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Peter Clifton <pcjc2 cam ac uk> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm developing a CAD application which uses a GtkDrawingArea for its
> schematic page view, and handles scroll wheel events to pan the
> schematic being viewed.
>
> On Linux, and built for Win32, tested under wine, scrolling works.
>
> Under WindowsXP, the scroll events seem to be eaten somehow. The mouse
> icon changes to the pointer+scroll-bar icon which you get when scrolling
> (for example), a console window, but my signal handler isn't being
> called (or at least, my schematic isn't scrolling).
>
> Does anyone have any ideas (given the above description), what might be
> going wrong on WinXP?
>
> Does anyone have any working example-code which shows scroll events
> working on Win32? Can you think of any GTK using applications on Win32,
> which definitely do have working scroll wheel handling?


Is this a "real" scrollwheel or a simulated scrollwheel in a touchpad?

See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=542777

-D