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

I came across another method (which was discussed on VBForums, advocated by Dilletante and Elroy).

...use the X-Mouse utility to fix the scroll-wheel. ... it's the only one I've ever found that correctly scrolls when you have your code displayed as a split-window.

Download website.

Since I was having trouble with the Microsoft add-in noted in some other answers I tried this and it does work well. Conveniently it also lets you set some options to tune the scrolling behavior and speed.