How to invert scroll wheel in certain applications using AutoHotkey?

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I want to be able to modify the scrolling/middle click behavior for individual apps on Windows 7, so that the scroll to zoom direction is always consistent across apps. This script makes the middle button act as a hand tool in Adobe Acrobat, for instance:

; Hand tool with middle button in Adobe Reader
#IfWinActive ahk_class AdobeAcrobat
Mbutton::
#IfWinActive ahk_class AcrobatSDIWindow
Mbutton::
Send {Space down}{LButton down}  ; Hold down the left mouse button.
KeyWait Mbutton  ; Wait for the user to release the middle button.
Send {LButton up}{Space up}  ; Release the left mouse button.
return
#IfWinActive

(It would be great if this could be adapted to allow "throwing" the document, too, like in Android or iPhone interfaces, but I don't know if it's possible to control scrolling that precisely)

How do I invert the scroll wheel-->zoom direction?

endolith

Posted 2011-02-16T16:43:42.227

Reputation: 6 626

What mouse do you have? I've got a Razer mouse and the keys (even the scroll wheel) can be customized in the drivers. Maybe driver customization is more easy than an direkt auto hotkey code. – Michael K – 2011-02-16T18:16:08.637

I want to customize on a per-app basis, though. Some apps scroll up zooms in, others scroll up zooms out. I want to make all apps behave as similarly as possible. – endolith – 2011-02-16T19:05:47.580

Answers

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Found an answer here: Topic: mouse wheel zoom direction. This will swap the scroll direction in Firefox:

#IfWinActive, ahk_class MozillaUIWindowClass
WheelDown::WheelUp
WheelUp::WheelDown

Apparently to get it to work for multiple apps, you'd need to create a window group.

Unfortunately this would affect things like list boxes inside those apps, too. AutoHotkey can tell what "ClassNN" you're hovering over inside of an app, so that might help narrow it down, but I'm not sure how to use that yet.

endolith

Posted 2011-02-16T16:43:42.227

Reputation: 6 626