Re: [Celestia-developers] Wheel operation consistently reversed

[Selden E B. Jr <se...@le...>]

Christophe,

Thanks!

I hadn't seen the problem for several days after installing Vincent's
patch but I couldn't be certain it was fixed.

Selden

> Indeed, that explains this elusive bug. I've commited the fix.


> Le Wednesday 28 November 2007 19:19:01 Da Woon Jung, vous avez écrit :
> > I was finally able to duplicate this problem on my Mac too.
> > (see my comment attached to bug #1825327 in the sf.net tracker)
> >
> > Vincent appears to be correct, in that this bug is due to the
> > reverseMouseWheel variable being uninitialized. If the reverse mouse
> > wheel option is not set in celestia.cfg, the uninitialized value
> > (i.e., random 0 or 1) is used, causing the kind of inconsistent
> > behaviour reported by Selden.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > DW
> >
> > On Nov 22, 2007 10:08 PM, Selden E Ball Jr wrote:
> > > Vincent,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the patch!
> > >
> > > At the moment I can neither confirm nor deny that it helps my problem.
> > > Part of my frustration is that it doesn't happen all of the time,
> > > although I don't do anything to change it.
> > >
> > > However, it does seem right to me that parameters which can be set
> > > in the config file should have consistant default values and not
> > > use values set by previous runs of the program.
> > >
> > > s.
> > >
> > > > I dont know whether this is related to what Selden noticed recently,
> > > > but once ReverseMouseWheel has been set to true in celestia.cfg, it
> > > > keeps the true value even when the ReverseMouseWheel entry is deleted
> > > > from celestia.cfg. This can be quite confusing especially in the
> > > > following case:
> > > > 1- Setting ReverseMouseWheel to true and running Celestia:
> > > >    The mouse wheel is /reversed/.
> > > > 2- Setting ReverseMouseWheel to false and running Celestia:
> > > >    The mouse wheel is /not reversed/.
> > > > 3- Deleting the ReverseMouseWheel entry from celestia.cfg and
> > > >    running Celestia: The mouse wheel is /reversed/.
> > > >
> > > > I think it would be better if ReverseMouseWheel was set to false
> > > > by default. The following one-line change does that:
> > > > http://vincent.gian.club.fr/celestia/configfile.cpp.patch
> > > >
> > > > Selden,
> > > >
> > > > Could you please test it and let me know if this solves your issue
> > > > with the mouse wheel ?
> > > >
> > > > @+
> > > > Vincent



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