Re: Setting mwheel down/up to new function

[burlo_stumproot]

jasonr (Jason Rumney) @  f2s.com writes:

> burlo_stumproot@notvalid.se writes:
> > jasonr (Jason Rumney) @  f2s.com writes:
> >> burlo_stumproot@notvalid.se writes:
> >> 
> >> > But somthing is grabbing my mouse scrolling before this
> >> > (global-set-key [mouse-4] 'gnus-summary-next-page) has a chance
> >> > to run.
> >> 
> >> Unlike the usual X configuration, Windows does not map the mouse wheel
> >> to mouse-4 and mouse-5. Try [wheel-up] and [wheel-down] instead.
> >
> > I tried that also, but all I ever get when using the mouse wheel
> > is mouse-wheel-scroll-line. 
> >
> > A C-h c gives "<mouse-wheel> runs the command mouse-wheel-scroll-line"
> > no matter if I scroll the mouse-wheel up or down. 
> 
> The mouse-wheel event is special in that it contains extra info about
> direction and magnitude. The current CVS uses wheel-up and wheel-down
> because they are a lot easier for the end user to work with, but for
> 21.3, if you look in lisp/term/w32-win.el, you should be able to find
> the code that deals with the [mouse-wheel] event so you can copy it
> and customize it yourself.

Thank you, I found what I needed in w32-win.el.