Re: scroll wheel focus

[jg pa dec com (Jim Gettys)]

I agree that if you are using explicit mouse focus the current
behavior is wrong. 

It might be possible to do what you want if the wm uses
grabs on the buttons...

See GrabButton....  You might have to send the events though...

Been too long for me to be positive what to do.

Keith?
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Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
Compaq Computer Corporation
jg pa dec com

> Sender: wm-spec-list-admin gnome org
> From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
> Date: 13 Feb 2002 01:41:59 -0500
> To: wm-spec-list gnome org
> Subject: scroll wheel focus
> -----
> Hi,
> 
> I just got a scroll wheel mouse for the first time, and I noticed that
> it has strict mouse focus; i.e. you must have the pointer inside the
> widget to be scrolled. Does it work this way on Windows? It seems sort
> of strange to me. As a user I expected the wheel to operate on the
> active widget in the active window.
> 
> Of course if you know how the scroll wheel is implemented on X it
> obviously works this way, since button presses go to the window under
> the pointer.
> 
> Assuming this needs fixing, how would we do it?
> 
> Havoc
> 
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