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Mouse wheel function

Wed, 14 September 2005 10:55

vonKreedon

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Messages: 610
Registered: March 2003
Location: Seattle, WA USA

I use the mouse wheel function a lot to get distances between things (for any unaware, you can click the mouse wheel over an object and then drag a line to another location to see the distance between the object and the location). However, on one of my Stars installs this function becomes a move cursor sort of like I was clicking the wheel on a Web page.

Does anyone know how to tell Stars to use the distance function instead?

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Re: Mouse wheel function

Wed, 14 September 2005 12:27

LEit

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Messages: 879
Registered: April 2003
Location: CT

Hey, I didn't know the wheel did that! It's slightly easier with the wheel (since you can let go after clicking the wheel), but what I've always used is shift right click (you have to hold the mouse button down till you're done).

Since Stars! was pre mouse wheel, it has no code to support it, any handling of the mouse wheel comes from the OS sending other messages, you'd have to check your OS.

[Updated on: Wed, 14 September 2005 12:27]

- LEit

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Re: Mouse wheel function

Wed, 14 September 2005 12:49

vonKreedon

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Messages: 610
Registered: March 2003
Location: Seattle, WA USA

Thanks LEit, the OS is likely the problem as it works on my W2K boxes, but not on my new XP box. I forgot that Stars! pre-dates mouse wheels and was hoping that there was an INI setting. Sad