Re: [Freeglut-developer] More mouse wheel API

[Nigel S. a. F. S. <ni...@ni...>]

>>>if (tick < 0)
>>>  do_negative_scroll ();
>>>else
>>>  do positive_scroll ();
>>
>>	The problem with this is that the sensitivity of
>>	mouse wheel stepping will depend on the resolution
>>	of the individual mouse, rather than matching
>>	the system concept of a forward or backward step.
>>	This approach will not work well for a truely
>>	analog mouse wheel.
> 
> Bingo.
> 
> That's why {tick} is a double-precision floating point value
> indicating the estimated millimeters of a tick.
> 
> The point is, some people were lamenting the "extra work" that
> pure tick-counters have to do.  In fact, it is no different.

	So a tick of 0.000001 and 0.01 should be both treated
	as one step in the positive direction?