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[tinaa]

I started playing with the WheelLeft and WheelRight keys to try and detect horizontal scroll action from the mouse or mimic it through a send command.

I'm running Windows 7 64bit.

However, when doing a send {WheelLeft}, for example, I find it doesn't seem to work for most applications. I verified that it is being sent through the key history. But with the exception of Firefox, I haven't found any applications that will actually scroll in response to this command.

In terms of detecting the horizontal scroll keys, I can't get that to work either. When I do a horizontal scroll with the mouse, I find that it what it actually does is send a scrollock on, left or right cursor key, scrollock off sequence. If I hold it to the left or right then the left or right cursor key is repeated before the scrollock is turned off. This approach works to varying degrees with different applications.

However, I was under the impression that as of Vista there was now a standard horizontal scrolling mechanism that should work at least for newer apps that support it.

Does the behaviour I described make any sense?

I also looked to see if I could find some HID driver (using AHKHID or AutohotkeyRemoteControlDLL) that would actually report on the left and right horizontal scroll buttons but I couldn't find any.

I'm using a logitech cordless wave desktop keyboard and mouse. I haven't installed the setpoint software. I did try it, but when I discovered that any process launched from setpoint receives elevated permissions automatically, I decided that this is not a piece of software I want running on my machine...

Thanks!