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Hi All,
I would like my code to do the following when I turn mouse wheel several clicks:
-Translate the first click to LbuttonDown
-Translate the following Clicks to MouseMoveDown
-Translate the last click to LbuttonUp

How can I get the last WheelDown event to trigger LbuttonUp?
Tried KeyWait, Loops etc but nothing worked.

Been stuck on this for 2 days now. Would love some help.

I've been using ESC as a temporary means to to reset everything for now.

Here's what I came up with.

Doesn't really work.
I'm not using an actual mouse but a usb device to send WheelUp and WheelDown - as a result, the wheel events don't interupt A_TimeIdlePhysical.

I'm looking for a way that
1) doesn't take the mouse too long to stop moving after scrolling stops.
2) doesn't cause ClickUp or ClickDown between the first and last wheel event

That's an important piece of information to note (would have been helpful in the original post).

Did you try using A_TimeIdle instead of A_TimeIdlePhysical?

Sorry my bad.
I tried using TimeIdle but no luck.

By "no luck" you mean that your USB device does not reset A_TimeIdle either? The manual states that any input should reset it. If that's the case I'm out of ideas because I think KeyWait only works with buttons, not wheel events.

My advice is to get a wheel mouse.

Just got a lend of a mousewheel to check the difference.
With your code, once scrolling starts the scrolling will not stop.
I have to kill AHK in Task Manager to get it to stop.
Behaves same with mousewheel or usb thing.

Trying a diffrent approach taken from detect mouse movement

As long as the mouse doesn't move physically, it makes no difference if Lbutton is down or up, right?

My wheel clicks are being sent no faster than 1 click per 15msec (even when using actual mousewheel)
So this code should detect physical mouse moves.
i used the code in the 2nd box to count the interval between Wheel clicks.

That's strange. I've tested my code several times on 2 different PCs (XP SP2) with 2 different wheel mice, and never had that happen. Both stopped scrolling after the 1 second delay every time. Note that A_TimeIdle is reset by any input, so you have to do nothing for a full second to stop the scrolling (i.e. you can't move the mouse or hit any keys or buttons). You can obviously adjust the wait period to be any amount of time.

You could try this:
No guarantees though. (it takes a full second of non-wheeling to make it release the slick)

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