VB6 - Vista - Mouse wheel
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From: Mikeb on 16 Mar 2007 22:16 My mouse wheel does not work in VB6 under Vista. It worked fine under XP. I have already tried the mouse wheel addin with no success. Any ideas for getting the mouse wheel to work?
From: Paul Lambert on 17 Mar 2007 04:27 Mikeb wrote: > My mouse wheel does not work in VB6 under Vista. It worked fine under XP. I > have already tried the mouse wheel addin with no success. Any ideas for > getting the mouse wheel to work? > > I haven't been able to get it to work either. If anyone figures it out it would be appreciated. P. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com
From: Norm Cook on 17 Mar 2007 08:50 "Paul Lambert" <paul.lambert(a)autoledgers.com.au> wrote in message news:45fb99fd$0$16292$88260bb3(a)free.teranews.com... > Mikeb wrote: > > My mouse wheel does not work in VB6 under Vista. It worked fine under XP. I > > have already tried the mouse wheel addin with no success. Any ideas for > > getting the mouse wheel to work? > > > > > > I haven't been able to get it to work either. > > If anyone figures it out it would be appreciated. > > P. > > -- > Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com Don't know about Vista but you might try Wheeler http://www.eluent.com/wheeler.htm
From: MikeD on 18 Mar 2007 21:01 "Mikeb" <mikeddd(a)ee.net> wrote in message news:eX54ApDaHHA.4000(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > My mouse wheel does not work in VB6 under Vista. It worked fine under XP. > I have already tried the mouse wheel addin with no success. Any ideas for > getting the mouse wheel to work? This has to do with the driver you're using. Remember, VB6 came out in 1998, before wheels on mice were common. Therefore, VB doesn't natively support a wheel. For the wheel to work in VB, the driver and related mouse software needs to provide this functionality. For example, I'm partial to Logitech mice. Their MouseWare software provides this functionality in apps that don't natively support wheel functionality. Check the web site of your mouse manufucture for specific Vista drivers and software that may provide this functionality to legacy apps. But....don't get your hopes up. Any hardware older than just a couple years probably isn't going to have official support under Vista. I've got a SoundBlaster Live sound card that's only about 3 years old that isn't supported under Vista (so I have no sound capability in Vista). I'm still just playing around in Vista. There's a couple things so far I've liked about it, but for the most part, my opinion is that you better have VERY recent hardware and a pretty decent PC in general to get anything out of Vista. There's a lot more about it, so far, that I don't like than there is that I do. But I felt the same way about WinXP when it first came out and now I actually prefer XP (I have a multiboot system with Win98, Win2000, WinXP and now Vista and I consider XP to be the "main" OS that I use, but that didn't come about until the time SP2 was released. I imagine I won't really "like" Vista for a couple years). -- Mike Microsoft MVP Visual Basic
From: Mikeb on 18 Mar 2007 21:27
Agree that VB6 is getting quite old, but you would think that one of the service pack would have updated it to use the wheel features. My wheel worked under XP with VB. I do have the latest drivers for my logitech mouse and the wheel works with everything else. Guess I'll have to start looking into upgrading to .net... |