[DUG] Capturing mouse wheel

Phil Middlemiss phil at tumonz.co.nz
Thu Jul 27 16:44:28 NZST 2006


Stunning advice. Although it means completely redesigning the packaging 
for our product (to accommodate shrink-wrapped cheese), we have decided 
to go ahead and implement your amazing suggestion. We are also planning 
on offering an optional branded mouse-wheel - one that can really let 
the mouse do it's thing.

Phil.

Kyley Harris wrote:
> I seem to recall that Cheese usually gets good results within an hour 
> or two. If you want to get the mouses attention faster then use warm 
> fried wafting bacon.
> It kind of depends on the mouse, if it really likes the wheel you may 
> have to use drastic measures.
>
> Hope that helps :D
>
> Kyley.
>
> On 27/07/2006, at 9:17 AM, Phil Middlemiss wrote:
>
>> We have a component that can use the mouse wheel - unfortunately, we 
>> also use another component (not ours) that uses the mouse wheel. The 
>> standard windows convention seems to be that whatever window has the 
>> focus gets to process the message first. So even though the mouse is 
>> over our component when the mouse wheel is rolled, the other 
>> component gets the message.
>>
>> I seem to remember some time ago seeing how to replace the main 
>> TApplication message handler with your own, but can't remember how 
>> now. Is this possible? What is the technique?
>>
>> Phil.
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