Re: Mouse wheel events

[Mike Melanson <mike multimedia cx>]

Tom Trebisky wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a GTK 2 application I have been developing that I would like
> to have use mouse wheel events.  I have a mouse event handler that
> gets left and right button events just fine, (being connected to the
> button release event).  Naturally, it doesn't get a thing when I
> rotate the center wheel on the mouse.  Can anyone tell me what
> to do, or direct me to appropriate documentation?

Investigate the GDK_SCROLL event. It gives you a GdkEventScroll event
structure that contains a direction field with GDK_SCROLL_UP or
GDK_SCROLL_DOWN.

Of course, this is different from the X11 event model which maps scroll
wheel events to mouse buttons 4 and 5.

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        -Mike Melanson