When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Scroll wheel - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_wheel

    The scroll wheel on a mouse has been invented multiple times by different people unaware of the others' work. Other scrolling controls on a mouse, and the use of a wheel for scrolling both precede the combination of wheel and mouse. The earliest known example of the former is the Mighty Mouse prototype developed jointly by NTT, Japan and ETH Zürich, Switzer

  3. Caret navigation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret_navigation

    All other scrolling must be manually controlled by the user by use of scroll bars, mouse wheel, or Page Up/Page Down keys. Another alternate form of control is used in some spreadsheets when the Scroll Lock key is activated. In this case the caret is locked to the centre of the screen and the cursor keys instead move the worksheet itself ...

  4. Computer mouse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse

    A computer mouse with the most common features: two buttons (left and right) and a scroll wheel (which can also function as a button when pressed inwards) A typical wireless computer mouse. A computer mouse (plural mice, also mouses) [nb 1] is a hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface

  5. Mouse wheel - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse_wheel

    Mouse wheel may refer to: Hamster wheel; Treadmill; Treadwheel; The scroll wheel of a computer mouse This page was last edited on 5 ...

  6. Scrollbar - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrollbar

    A scroll wheel on a conventional mouse may also be used. Moving the wheel in a desired direction moves the content in the same direction. [16] Most mice contain scroll wheels that only scroll up and down, but some mice contain scroll wheels that allow the user to scroll in any direction (up, down, left or right), including diagonal directions.

  7. Scrolling - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrolling

    Scrolling may take place in discrete increments (perhaps one or a few lines of text at a time), or continuously (smooth scrolling). Frame rate is the speed at which an entire image is redisplayed. It is related to scrolling in that changes to text and image position can only happen as often as the image can be redisplayed.

  8. Apple Mighty Mouse - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Mighty_Mouse

    If not used with Mac OS X, the mouse behaves as a four "button" mouse with a vertical and horizontal scroll wheel. There are third-party drivers (including XMouse [8]) that provide more functions to users of other platforms such as Windows. The Mighty Mouse does not report whether the right and left sensors are activated simultaneously.

  9. Detent - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detent

    The scroll wheels on many computer mice employ detents to divide scrolling into discrete steps. The shutter button on many cameras has a detent to selectively activate autofocusing and exposure calculation. Further pressure on the button then passes the detent and activates the shutter.