141100 - Mouse: Intellimouse scrolling (all directions) by holding wheel down and moving mouse does not work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 22775

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Tom Hundt]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc1)
Gecko/20020417
BuildID:    2002041711

The Intellimouse driver enables scrolling in any direction (and more than one
direction at once) by holding down the wheel (as a middle button) and dragging
in a direction.  E.g., to scroll down, one holds down the wheel and pulls the
mouse down -- the application will then begin scrolling downward.  Moving the
mouse farther speeds up the scrolling.  Moving it in a different direction
scrolls in that direction.  All this activity is done while displaying a special
cursor icon.  This does work in Netscape, Explorer (and IE), and most all legacy
apps.

Microsoft calls this function "AutoScroll".  It calls the sideways scrolling
"panning".

Driver I am using is PS/2 Port Mouse IntelliPoint 5/19/2000 v3.20.0.484. 
Hardware is an Intellimouse Optical.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have an IntelliPoint driver loaded.  (Usual case with any IntelliMouse.)
2. Go to a web page that requires scrolling.
3. Attempt to scroll using AutoScroll (i.e., push wheel [use as a button], drag
mouse up or down or to side).

Actual Results:  Nothing.

Expected Results:  Cursor should have changed to uparrow/dot/downarrow and
scrolling happened.

I think most applications support this by default, because the driver sends
scrollup/scrolldown events to the window, and the app doesn't know anything
about a middle button.  This is why old apps (example: Eudora e-mail) will work
with it.  

But if the app captures the middle button events itself... no joy.  (See for
example
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q233277&LN=EN-US&rnk=2&SD=gn&FR=1&qry=autoscroll&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=IM&)
 
Another example is the Exceed X-server, which is middle-button-aware.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22775 ***

Comment 2

[:deanis74]

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