How can I make mousewheel work in VB6 IDE?

Question

One annoying behavior of the VB6 IDE editor, especially when switching back to it from more recent tools like VS.NET, is that it doesn\'t recognize the mousewheel! Maybe VB6 wa

Answer 1

The easiest method that worked for me was just downloading and running the binary from http://www.joebott.com/vb6scrollwheel.htm

Usage:

Just run the exe and your VB editors have the scroll.

Info from the Author:

This is a small program that will make your mouse's scroll wheel work in various older programs - mainly Visual Basic 6's code window. I noticed a lot of people coming to this site from Google looking for help with their mouse wheel. So, I decided to fix it.

It is possible to support many programs by adjusting its INI file. The included INI file includes support for:

• VB6 Code Window
• VB6 Resource Design Window
• SourceSafe 6 Diff Viewer
• Windiff VBA Editor