Whizmouse: scroll without clicking window

Tekzilla just featured this neat little application from here:

http://antibody-software.com/web/softwa ... the-mouse/

"WizMouse is a mouse enhancement utility that makes your mouse wheel work on the window currently under the mouse pointer, instead of the currently focused window. This means you no longer have to click on a window before being able to scroll it with the mouse wheel. This is a far more comfortable and practical way to make use of the mouse wheel.
WizMouse can also optionally enable the mouse wheel in applications that don't support it. It does this by translating mouse wheel commands into scroll bar commands that all applications can understand and process.

* Scrolls windows under the mouse without having to click first
* Enables the mouse wheel in applications that don't support mouse wheels"

Uses only a 5meg process. I found it works great with Excel moving between spreadsheets as well as multiple browser windows, just hovering the pointer instead of clicking the window. Can be disabled from running at startup if not needed.

 

yeah i think you dont need this software for this feature, you can actually enable this feature in your device settings on your synaptic touch pad thingy.

 

I use a wireless mouse, and rarely use the touch pad. Hadn't noticed whether the touchpad does it - I have all the right settings enabled for the touchpad software, but it didn't scroll without clicking the window when using a mouse. Now it does.

 

Ya, dont' really need this. Both the touchpad drive and windows itself have this capability. They're just disabled by default.

 

So, explain to the unwashed exactly how to enable it, wise one.

 

I use Linux Mandriva Spring and when I have 2 applications open like a text editor and Firefox with the text editor as the focused applications and slide the cursor over Firefox and spin the wheel the page in Firefox scroll and I didn't setup anything or add any software just normal operation.

 

Which OS is he using?

For vista/windows 7, go to ease of access, then click "change how your mouse works"

enable "activate a window by hovering over it with the mouse".

For windows XP, this feature is in the accessibility section. This applies to both the touchpad and whatever mouse you connect to the netbook.

If you want to enable it through snaptics driver, you can as well. There's a option called "scroll under pointer". Enable that and you can scroll whatever that's under your the pointer. This only affect the snaptics touchpad on the AAO.

 

Under XP as installed in AA1, I did not see this feature in the Accessibility wizard.

I did find that the Tweak UI download, under Mouse, has a setting called X-Mouse that has the pointer focus windows for scrolling with an external mouse or the touchpad, but it doesn't function within applications as Whizmouse does. Since I'm only interested in something that works consistently with a wireless mouse, I'm going to use the Whizmouse app.