Emulating the scroll wheel

[oblivion]

I use a graphics tablet, mostly, instead of a mouse. Which works well for me, and I don't get rsi like I used to with mice. Mouses? Whatever. Anyway...

So a stylus on a (for the sake of argument) Wacom graphics tablet has two buttons and the nib. The nib is left-click, the buttons are definable but one pretty much has to be right-click and because I'm kinda locked into this way of doing things after all these years, the other is double-left-click.

Which is perfect for everything. Except... scrolling.

When I'm in the sort of window with a scroll bar, it means I have to drag the position indicator up and down, which is fine although scroll bars are getting narrower these days and just grabbing the thing is more of a challenge than it used to be.

But sometimes, I need a scroll wheel. Zooming in and out, in some contexts, uses that, and I have two choices -- do without, or reach for a mouse.

So it occurred to me this morning that I might be able to use the Toolbox to emulate the scroll wheel. I tried a simple action:

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0001 Mouse: Scroll wheel down "1"
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and set a trigger of ctrl-right-click.

Nothing.

Well, not quite "nothing". I got a context menu as if I'd pressed right-click without a modifier.

I wondered if the tablet driver was hijacking the click, so I tried a fully keyboarded trigger: ctrl-shift-down.

Still nothing.

I amended the number of wheel turns (to 3) in case the number meant something other than a line, but still nothing.

I expect I'm missing something terribly obvious -- but I can't work out what! Help, please!

[Paul (Lead Developer)]

Hi Oblivion. I'll have to look at hooking the mouse better for a future update. But for now, your action works to scroll the mouse wheel down when using a hotkey of Shift+Ctrl+F12. Maybe use something like that for the interim?

[oblivion]

Hi Paul :>

Thanks, I'll have to experiment. Ideally, something I can do without putting the stylus down, which means left hand only. But I couldn't make Ctrl-Shift-F12 work either, so maybe I need to come up with some nice, obscure combos.

[Paul (Lead Developer)]

I couldn't make Ctrl-Shift-F12 work either

That combo with your action scrolls on three different PCs here. Not sure what else I can do at this stage.