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misc. functions of "high-end" mice don't work in eclipse. Eg. mine has a "tiltable" scroll wheel, i.e. a scrollwheel for vertical scrolling that can also be pressed sideways for horizontal scrolling. The bare scroll wheel function usually works, though not always (i.e. not in all views) and if it does then it often scrolls the wrong view. To my understanding a scroll wheel should always scroll the view in which the mouse is currently in, regardless of whether it currently has the focus or not. So one often scrolls the wrong view (e.g. the editor while the mouse is in the problems list below). And all additional buttons (backward/forward) and esp. the very convenient tilt/horizontal scrolling does not work at all!
I just had one of these rare cases, where the scroll wheel suddenly completely seizes to function in eclipse (and this is really only in eclipse, i.e. in other apps/windows it still works) but not any longer in eclipse, in none of the views nor perspectives. Very odd!
Now that's really odd: this morning the horizontal scrolling (with the tiltable scroll wheel) suddenly worked in eclipse! I had only suspended the machine since my last append, not even rebooted - I am totally surprised since that had definitely not worked before! I only wonder for how long it will stay. Very, very odd! So my only feature request remaining would then be that te scroll wheel input should go to the view in which the mouse currently is in. Michael
On Windows, the mouse wheel behaviour has changed between IntelliMouse 4.x and 5.0. With 4.x, the widget under the mouse pointer was scrolled, with 5.0 the focused widget is scrolled. On my system, I see this change in all applications, including Eclipse. (There are more annoying "features" in 5.0: It lacks application-specific mouse button bindings and the support for high-resolution mouse wheels makes scrolling in combo boxes highly unpractical.) Unfortunately, 4.x doesn't support tilt wheels and doesn't make use of the higher resolution of new IntelliMouse wheels, so I upgraded to 5.0. In all other regards, I liked 4.1 much better.
I see the behavior of requiring widget to have focus also with Logitec MouseWare v9.8. This really really sucks. I sure hope is an eclipse problem so it will be fixable.
1) mouse wheel should affect the window under the cursor vs the focus window see Bug#75766. 2) back/forward buttons (or horizontal wheel) see Bug#7101. closing as duplicate of Bug#75766. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75766 ***
