Re: Mouse wheel is now supported in vDos-lfn

[Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx]

Wengier,

Do you mean two separate wheels? No, I've never seen that. By 2-D mouse
control, I'm talking about being able to use the mouse to move the cursor
up and down AND right and left.


If the Ctrl state is not part of the scan codes, in what sense is it
outputting ctrl-w rather than just w? (And, in fact, plain w is what I get
as output to XyWrite.)


Regards,
Harry





Hi Harry,

The scan codes you mentioned are generally correct (except that the scan
codes should be 72 and 80 when you set WHEELMOD=4). The Ctrl state is
*not* part of the scan codes. Rather, it comes as part of an extra flag,
and the actual scan codes are not affected by it. I am not exactly sure
what you meant by "two-dimensional mouse control". You meant like pressing
Left and Down at the same time? But I think your mouse does have both
vertical and horizontal scrolling wheels, so you should be able to achieve
this easily by scrolling both wheels about the same time. Hope this helps.


Wengier


On Sunday, August 28, 2016 7:53 AM, Harry Binswanger  wrote:


Wengier,

This is a very nice suite.

On my system:
WheelMod 4 puts out scan codes are 2 and 6
WheelMod 5 puts out scan codes 75 and 77
WheelMod 6 puts out 73 and 81
WheelMod 7 puts out17 and 44.

In other words, the Ctrl state is not coming through.

Is there any way to get two-dimensional mouse control? Like a WheelMod that
puts out different things in a shifted state?

I'm using WheelMod 2, which does a LR and LL, so it moves through the text
from line-end to next line-beginning, but that's pretty slow.

Regards,
Harry



>I made a cleanup of the mouse wheel feature in the latest vDos-lfn build
>(build 2016.08.27). Now the WHEELMOD supports the following:
>
>WHEELMOD=0: Disabled
>WHEELMOD=1: Up/Down arrows
>WHEELMOD=2: Left/Right arrows
>WHEELMOD=3: PgUp/PgDn keys
>WHEELMOD=4: Ctrl+Up/Down arrows
>WHEELMOD=5: Ctrl+Left/Right arrows
>WHEELMOD=6: Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn keys
>WHEELMOD=7: Ctrl+W/Z keys (as supported by WordStar and DOS EDIT etc)
>
>P.S. Horizontal scrolling is also supported as before (via the optional
>second argument) and the two scrolling methods can be switched at the
>run-time with a shortcut.
>
>Wengier
>
>
>On Friday, August 26, 2016 11:17 PM, Wengier W
>mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxdmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>I have further expanded the mouse wheel scrolling feature to support
>mapping to Ctrl+PgUp/PgDn (WHEELMOD=4) and Ctrl+W/Z (WHEELMOD=5).
>WHEELMOD=4 seems to work pretty well in XyWrite, while both WHEELMOD=4 and
>WHEELMOD=5 appear to work in programs like WordStar and DOS EDIT. The
>expanded feature is now supported in the latest build of vDos-lfn, i.e.
>build 2016.08.26. Hope this will be useful.
>
>Wengier
>
>
>On Monday, August 15, 2016 10:19 AM, Wengier W
>mailto:dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxdmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>Hi Kari,
>
>When you use the up and down option, I think you can make the scrolling
>faster in XyWrite by holding the ALT key. But the PgUp and PgDn option
>will cause the scrolling even faster. I have changed the documentation
>regarding the WHEELMOD option, which currently says:
>
>Mouse wheel movements can be automatically converted into keyboard presses
>in vDos-lfn. By default, the standard vertical scrolling is converted into
>up and down arrows, but with the WHEELMOD directive you can customize the
>keys. You may optionally also specify a second value if your mouse supports
>horizontal scrolling (it's converted into left and right arrows by default).
>Note that you can switch the two scrolling methods by pressing the middle
>mouse button and either the left or the right mouse button at the same time;
>the original behaviors can be restored by pressing the middle mouse button
>alone. To customize the converted key presses of the mouse wheel movements:
>(0 - disable; 1 - up/down arrows; 2 - left/right arrows; 3 - PgUp/PgDn)
>
>rem WHEELMOD = 1,3
>
>Let me know if you have other comments about this.
>
>Wengier
>
>
lexitec@xxxxxxxxlexitec@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
>Hello Wengier,
>
>This is no big deal but in my case the cursor jumps to the left, text or
>no text. I have LU and LD in the keyboard file, keys 72 and 80
>respectively. In the numpad 100 and 102, I have paragraph movement
>functions. How is this tied to the wheel movement?
>
>By the way, the PgUp and PgDn option is really great. I think I will be
>using this.
>
>The documentation should perhaps state that the WHEELMOD option is
>enabled by default.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Kari Eveli
>LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
>lexitec@xxxxxxxxlexitec@xxxxxxxx
>
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>
>
>14.8.2016, 18:18, Wengier W (Redacted sender wengierwu for DMARC) kirjoitti:
> > Hi Kari,
> >
> > Since the mouse wheel movements are simply converted to up / down
> > arrows, I don't think they should do anything different from the UP /
> > DOWN keys, at least in theory. I believe the cursor jumps to the left
> > margin only if that line happens to be empty. On the other hand, I never
> > used Xy keyboard functions "cu" and "cd" before so I am not really
> > familiar with them. Maybe someone else can help with this?
> >
> > Wengier
>
>
>