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tarc
 Post subject: The "Roller!"
PostPosted: October 17th, 2006, 12:09 am 
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Hi,

I tought I'd share with you a mousewheel project.

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It is based upon this guy's great idea: (With Walktrough)
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.p ... fd&t=86820

A homebrew usb knob, with an old VHS playing head mounted on a mouse’s scroll wheel socket.

VHS heads have excellent ball bearings and believe me, it spins really well.

It is particularly useful in scrolling large list in music library, scrolling through text or scripts.

I use mostly graphic applications and in Photoshop, every numeric box entry is adjustable with the mouse wheel. I have assigned various modifiers (alt, ctrl, etc) to the mouse wheel to adjust things like: Brush Size, Brush opacity, Zoom, Volume etc.

Regards,

Tarc


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PostPosted: October 17th, 2006, 12:25 pm 
D'ya you wanna sell such a device all over the world (OK, guessing its form factor will change a little :wink:)???
In German 'Spinner' means 'fool' :shock: (definitely in some parts of Germany).

Just to let you know. Btw, cool project 8)


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PostPosted: October 17th, 2006, 3:20 pm 
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Hi Bobo,

I thought I'd show it here so people could build their own! :)

Thanks for the tip, it is funny how things have different meanings in other languages. Once I made an illustration representing excellence with a hand joining index and thumb to form a kind of "o", I soon learned by the client that in Latin America this gesture a whole other meaning, and was is in fact meaning: “asshole”.

Tarc


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PostPosted: October 17th, 2006, 3:58 pm 
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I soon learned by the client that in Latin America ...
which indeed is based on the colonization done by European (Mediterranian) Empires. Latin is the basis of the italian, french, hispanic language - so while colonized the native South/Middle American people adopted that NON verbal language (gestures) too.

So feel free to get killed in Milano (Italy/EU) for the reason that you've used a 'Latin American' gesture :shock:

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PostPosted: October 17th, 2006, 4:09 pm 
:lol: a "Roller" is commonly used in Germany as an equivalent for
1) a 'Vespa' --> [Motorroller] or
2) a toy for kids --> [Tretroller] or
3) a special kind of cheese --> ["Harzer Roller"]

Have fun 8)


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PostPosted: October 17th, 2006, 4:35 pm 
What about to let the AHK Community find a name for the BVHMSD (BlueishVideoHeadMouseScrollDevice) ??? Go + get IT! :D


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PostPosted: October 17th, 2006, 5:15 pm 
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Motoroller, I like that!

Tarc


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PostPosted: October 17th, 2006, 6:54 pm 
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For the ones, who are not so good at building cool hardware, here is a script I use to speed up scrolling, when needed. If the 4th mouse button is pressed, while the wheel turns, scrolling will be 10 times faster. (Use any other key or button, if your mouse is not like a piano.)
Code:
CoordMode Mouse, Screen          ; Needed for Wheel handling
DllCall("SystemParametersInfo",UInt,0x69,UInt,1,UInt,0,UInt,0) ; Wheel -> 1 line/event

XButton1::Wheel =                ; Reset Wheel history
XButton1 Up::                    ; Normal only if Wheel did not turn
   IfNotEqual Wheel,, Return
   SendInput {XButton1}
Return

WheelDown::                      ; Scroll window under mouse pointer
WheelUp::                        ; Needs "CoordMode Mouse, Screen"
   Wheel = 1                     ; For XButton
   MouseGetPos mX, mY, WinID, Ctrl
   Loop % 1+9*GetKeyState("XButton1","P") ; Accelerated scroll: Some applications don't take scroll-size
     PostMessage 0x20A,((A_ThisHotKey="WheelUp")-.5)*A_EventInfo*(120<<17),(mY<<16)|mX,%Ctrl%,ahk_id %WinID%
Return
This script also changes the wheel behavior: the control under the mouse cursor scrolls, not the active one. You can scroll your dictionary on the side of the screen, while your editor stays active.


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PostPosted: October 18th, 2006, 12:55 pm 
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here is a script I use to speed up scrolling
Wouldn't this be a top scorer at the Scripts&Functions section (if not be already)? :D


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something similar has been posted there


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PostPosted: October 18th, 2006, 4:12 pm 
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Great script Laszlo!
I like the Idea of not having to bring the window upfront to activate the scrollbars.

Tarc


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PostPosted: October 19th, 2006, 9:54 pm 
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I was also thinking of a footswitch project for a while. Now that there is some cheap 6 buttons mouses available, I could use the last three ones and map something specific to it.

Maybe something like Ctrl alt and shift.

Regards,

Tarc


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