Re: [AD] horizontal mouse wheel

[Peter W. <tj...@ex...>]

On 2007-03-24, Elias Pschernig <el...@us...> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 12:16 +0100, Elias Pschernig wrote:
> > I'd like to add support for horizontal mouse wheels to the X11 driver.
> > It's very simple to add, like Button4 and Button5 are mapped to change
> > mouse_z, Button6 and Button7 act for the horizontal direction. (I
> > couldn't find a document stating this, but it works in KDE/Gnome for
> > horizontal scrolling in all windows.)
> > 
> > So, the obvious way to add this to the API would be to add a mouse_w
> > variable which behaves just like mouse_z.
> > 
> > Add the same time, my new mouse also has a 4th regular button, so I'd
> > also make the X11 driver use another bit in mouse_b for this extra
> > button.. so "if (mouse_b & 8)" would check for it.
> 
> Patch against 4.2 attached. I also updated exmouse to show the
> horizontal wheel position and additional buttons.

Looks fine.

Peter