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I have become accustomed to the middle mousebutton thumbwheel. It's very convenient to scroll through a help file or file that I'm editing. When I first installed this mouse at the end of 1999 I didn't expect it to be anything more than just a doodad. But in fact, all applications support it, it is incredibly convenient and has reduced my repetitive strain problems quite a bit. The help and the editor in the Forte CE 1.0 don't support the middle wheel, in fact I haven't yet run into any Java application that does. This is just about the first NetBeans bug I've posted and I don't even know if I'm getting the right module to report it for. Whether it's a bug or a feature there's NO WAY I could fix it at the moment; I'm a complete neophyte. But it would be good if Java could support the standard middle mousewheel, it's a gift.
Java, not Forte, bug. Marked on JDC as "will be fixed in a future release". In the meantime there are various experimental patches and hacks to get it to work, see nbusers@netbeans.org or eap-interest@developer.netbeans.com mailing lists, for example.
nEdit (www.nedit.org) should be used as an example of how the (unix) middle mouse button should work within an editor. This editor rocks.
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> verified.
Resolved for 3.4.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.