153741 - The scroll button on my Thinkpad doesn't work in Mozilla.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 20618

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Michael P. Gillmor]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
BuildID:    2002053012

Thinkpads have a trackpoint (eraser head) pointing device. In addition to the 
left and right clicker buttons, there is also a blue button beneath them that 
when you hold it down, allows you to scroll in any program by then moving the 
trackpoint.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to any webpage.
2. Click and hold the scroll button
3. Move the trackpoint (erasor head)

Actual Results:  Cursor on screen stops moving in response to trackpoint (only 
while scroll button is depressed) (this is what should happen).

But, webpages will not scroll in response to trackpoint movement when scroll 
button is depressed. (they should)

Expected Results:  what happens in internet explorar for instance:

When scroll button is depressed cursor stops moving, and instead the webpage 
scrolls up and down in response to trackpoint input.

Note: cursor moves again once scroll button is released.

I am still able to scroll webpages by using the scroll bar at the right of the 
screen.

Exact same problem occurs in Mozilla 1.1alpha

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

from bug 20618 :
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IBM have a new version of the Trackpoint driver that work with Netscape 6/Mozilla.

version 2.09
- (New) Support scrolling on Netscape 6. (Vertical direction only)
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 20618 ***

Comment 2

[Trix Supremo]

verifying dupe