From: "Alexei A. Frounze" <dummy_addressee AT hotmail DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Scroll Wheels in Dos.
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 02:19:08 -0500
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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, R. Glashans wrote:
>
> > I've been trying to find some source to read the scroll wheel of a
standard
> > ms-mouse.
>
> You mean, by using Int 33h functions with the standard mouse drivers?
> AFAIK, this is impossible: Microsoft quite deliberately didn't add that
> functionality to the Int 33h API.
>
> If someone knows how to get at the wheel events via Int 33h, please
> speak up.

By introducing a new function on int 33h and making a new driver for DOS
(and windows so that wheel rotation reflects to v86 tasks :).
I bet there are not many people willing to do this (especially, to change
something in windows on behalf of DOS programs :)

Good Luck
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