How to read mouse wheel in windows 10

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the question’s in the title - anyone know how to read the mouse wheel on a standard PC mouse. I see that the enticingly entitled GetMouseWheel doesn’t work in windows

cheesr Tom

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Hi Tom,

the best way to do this would be to (ab)use KbQueues, which can record mouse axis motion, and sometimes as a 3rd axis also mouse wheel motion. This should work on Linux and Windows, but not macOS.

See MouseMotionRecordingDemo.m for a starter:
http://psychtoolbox.org/docs/MouseMotionRecordingDemo

-mario

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thanks mario - seems to work (once I updated PTB - doh!). cheesr Tom