Use Mouse scroll wheel to Inc/dec Knobs and numeric controls in focus

[Alex_Pi]

It would be a great improvement to "feel" the Knobs turning on the Front Panel, by using the mouse scroll wheel to turn them.

In order to avoid a conflict with the scrollbars of the window, the Controls should be brougt into fixed focus first by clicking on its edge or having a explicit button integrated (shown green) in the knob to focus it to use the mouse scroll wheel (shown yellow).

The increment/decrement should be 1 by default but be configurable by the user or programmer.

In addition i Would like to refere to other cool scroll wheel ideas:

Control + Scroll Wheel for Arrays

Mouse wheel scroll event

Make mouse wheel scroll the string control/indicator (and add other normal GUI features)

[altenbach]

Key navigation does not need focus first, so this seems inconsistent.

I think a better solution is to add scroll events to the event structure, and this has already been suggested by tst. I has wide support (239 votes so far).

[dthor]

I came here to mention the same thing, altenbach. This, any many more items, would be very easy and convenient to do if scroll events existed.

[Alex_Pi]

yes thats why I added the link to the scroll event and I also did give Kudos to it. But implementing this funktion with a scroll event in LV would still lead to conflicts with the standard scrolling if not handled properly. Thats why it should be done by the control object itself.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

Kudos.

[dthor]

How do you feel about just needing to hover over the control, instead of clicking on it?

[Alex_Pi]

good idea, but you will need some security for when you just scroll the whole page an get over controls while scrolling.

[Alex_Pi]

YES, LabVIEW 2013 has this utilized. finally!

[Darren]

Available in LabVIEW 2013