Problem :
To detect rotation of the mouse wheel in .NET/WinForms, I can override OnMouseWheel
. Clicking can be detected by overriding OnMouseDown
(it’s just the Middle
button). But how do I detect tilting of the wheel (tilt to the left/right for horizontal scrolling)? Neither OnMouseWheel
, not OnMouseDown
is being called when I tilt the mouse wheel.
Solution :
Covered here; in short, you need to handle the windows message manually (at it isn’t handled directly in .NET – code is from the linked article):
protected override void WndProc(ref Message m)
{
base.WndProc(ref m);
if (m.HWnd != this.Handle)
{
return;
}
switch (m.Msg)
{
case Win32Messages.WM_MOUSEHWHEEL:
FireMouseHWheel(m.WParam, m.LParam);
m.Result = (IntPtr)1;
break;
default:
break;
}
}
...
abstract class Win32Messages
{
public const int WM_MOUSEHWHEEL = 0x020E;//discovered via Spy++
}
Based on this article, if you have the IntelliPoint drivers, you will get WM_MOUSEHWHEEL messages.