A message appears stating that in VM implementations that decide to support it, Squeak maps the mouse wheel to the Ctrl Up-Arrow and Ctrl-Down-Arrow keys . For example, on Win32 in sqWin32Window.c :
if( WM_MOUSEWHEEL == message || g_WM_MOUSEWHEEL == message ) {
short zDelta = (short) HIWORD(wParam);
if(inputSemaphoreIndex) {
sqKeyboardEvent *evt = (sqKeyboardEvent*) sqNextEventPut();
evt->type = EventTypeKeyboard;
evt->timeStamp = lastMessage->time;
evt->charCode = (zDelta > 0) ? 30 : 31;
evt->pressCode = EventKeyChar;
evt->modifiers = CtrlKeyBit;
evt->utf32Code = 0;
evt->reserved1 = 0;
} else {
buttonState = 64;
if (zDelta < 0) {
recordVirtualKey(message,VK_DOWN,lParam);
} else {
recordVirtualKey(message,VK_UP,lParam);
}
}
return 1;
}
So, something you need to work inside Squeak. (If you use Polymorph extensions, there is a special event mouseWheel, but all they do is filter Ctrl-Up and Ctrl-Down and create a fake message MouseWheelEvent.)
See some code for handleEventin HandMorph:
evt isMouse ifTrue:[
self sendListenEvent: evt to: self mouseListeners.
lastMouseEvent _ evt].
"Check for pending drag or double click operations."
mouseClickState ifNotNil:[
(mouseClickState handleEvent: evt from: self) ifFalse:[
"Possibly dispatched
^self mouseOverHandler processMouseOver: lastMouseEvent]].
evt isMove ifTrue:[
self position: evt position.
self sendMouseEvent: evt.
] ifFalse:[
"Issue a synthetic move event if we're not at the position of the event"
(evt position = self position) ifFalse:[self moveToEvent: evt].
"Drop submorphs on button events"
(self hasSubmorphs)
ifTrue:[self dropMorphs: evt]
ifFalse:[self sendMouseEvent: evt].
].
MouseWheelEvent MouseEvent, true isMove, . - , , .