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NoBonus:
A two-fold question: can a mouse-wheel (the wheel between the two buttons) be used in MAME as a spinner? If so, can it be hacked into a spinner?

Thanks!

Andrew

sodapopinski:
well, you woluld like to hack the mouse and attach a spinner? If you need to buy a spinner, well...... or you want to buy a pot? or mount the mouse spinner itself? your best off buying an oscar spinner. You probably can't get the same control off the mouse.  but what do i know, i'm drunk.

Kremmit:
My understanding is that the "scroll wheel", or Z-axis on a mouse has much lower resolution than the x & y axes, so I would think it would work poorly.  But I've never tried it, so maybe I should just shut up.

Mario:
My guess would be "no" unless one writes custom mouse drivers. The mouse wheel is not recognized by Windows as mouse movements. Windows will intercept the wheel movements before the application can process them.

Mario

Kremmit:

--- Quote from: Mario on March 13, 2005, 02:05:54 pm ---My guess would be "no" unless one writes custom mouse drivers. The mouse wheel is not recognized by Windows as mouse movements. Windows will intercept the wheel movements before the application can process them.

Mario


--- End quote ---

MAME will allow input from the "Z-axis" now, so you could use it.  The problem is that the resolution on the scroll wheel is too low.

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