[h-e-w] Re: mouse wheel button problem on Windows

[Raymond Zeitler]

Hi Drew:

I think this is related to your mouse driver.

My mouse driver is set to use the "_Connected Device" IntelliMouse.

I have checked "Enable program-specific settings," in which the Wheel Button
is disabled for Gnu Emacs.  It is this program-specific feature that might
enable you to have the mouse work normally for all applications except Emacs
and do something else for Emacs.

I'm still using: GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2006-03-21
on YAMALOK

I also attached a screenshot of both the program-specific setting dialog and
the driver properties.

If these attachments should get blocked and you'd like me to e-mail them to
you directly, please let me know.

Good luck!

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Raymond Zeitler <address@hidden> 




-----Original Message-----
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:27:38 -0700
From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
Subject: [h-e-w] mouse wheel button problem on Windows
To: <address@hidden>
Message-ID: <address@hidden>
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I'm having this problem now (in all Emacs versions, on MS Windows):

   Clicking the mouse wheel in Win32 Emacs causes the little
   AutoScoll symbol to appear instead of pasting. If you
   click the mouse wheel again, the AutoScroll disappears
   and the pasting occurs. If you change the wheel click to
   anything other than the default, then pasting in Win32
   Emacs doesn't work at all (IIRC).
   http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-07/msg00252.html

This just started happening, after I updated my mouse driver. I tried
rolling
back the driver - didn't help. I downloaded a new driver - didn't help. I
see
the problem even with different (Intellimouse) mice.

Symptom: When I click the wheel button (`mouse-2' for Emacs), the first
click is
intercepted by Windows and displays the autoscroll pointer. I must click it
again to get Windows to pass the mouse event to Emacs. E.g., if I do `C-h k'
and
then click the wheel button, the Windows autoscroll pointer appears and
Windows
initiates autoscrolling. If I then click it again, Emacs receives the
`down-mouse-2' event and I see the output from `describe-key'.

As I say, this is a new problem for me, and I can't seem to turn it off. It
always just worked before. I see the same problem in all Emacs versions, and
-Q
or not.

In the mouse properties box, I have the Wheel Button set to its default
value of
AutoScroll. I tried setting it to None, but then no event is sent to Emacs
at
all. I tried setting it to Paste, but that sends a `C-v' to Emacs.

I tried setting it to Redo, and that sends `C-y' to Emacs, but that's not
what I
want (and, besides, I don't want the middle mouse button to be Redo in other
apps). I want to be able to bind `down-mouse-2' to a particular command, and
have Emacs actually receive `down-mouse-2' and `mouse-2' events, not `C-y'.

Help appreciated.

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