Tdesktop: Auto-scrolling using mouse wheel

[devincurrie]

Steps to reproduce

1. open window with long conversation history
2. middle click on chat area
3. cursor icon doesn't register middle button to change into auto-scroll mode
4. move mouse up or down to scroll
5. nothing happens

Expected behaviour

Simulate similar behaviour as web browsers (Firefox, Opera, Chrome, etc.)

1. open long chat history
2. middle click on conversation history area to change into auto-scroll mode
3. change standard mouse cursor/pointer icon to auto-scroll icon
   (e.g. https://www.iconfinder.com/icons/115013/down_scroll_up_icon)
4. move mouse up or down to scroll through chat history
5. middle click to exit auto-scroll mode
6. change auto-scroll icon back to standard mouse cursor/pointer icon

Actual behaviour

No response to middle click. Need to use up/down key, page up/down, or use vertical scroll bar to go through chat history.

Configuration

Operating system:
Windows 10 Pro 64

Version of Telegram Desktop:
1.0.14

Used theme:
Dark

Logs:

Insert logs here (if necessary)

[danger89]

Yep love the idea! Just like a web-browser as implemented this.

[zevero]

Why do we need steps 2 and 3. Mouse wheel should just work when hovering over history.

Which it never was for a long time. I was very happy when it did start to work suddenly some weeks ago. But I guess since last update it stopped working. Sad. Restarts did not help.
Other then with Telegram I never had any issues with mouse wheel.

Operating system: Debian Stretch 64 bit with xfce
Version of Telegram Desktop: 1.1.7

[danger89]

@zevero This is not just scrolling with a mouse wheel. This issue is about so called 'Auto-scroll'.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/58900/how-to-scroll-the-screen-using-the-middle-click?answertab=active#tab-top

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[devincurrie]

Please re-open as this issue is still not resolved as of today (Telegram
Desktop v1.4 on Windows 10-64). Thanks.

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Closed #3161 https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/issues/3161.

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[kitor]

+1. I'm always annoyed by this behavior while using anything with trackpoint and three buttons / third button emulation.

Indeed in most cases (like it's default in Thinkpads) you can set middle click to scroll on driver level, but this blocks all the other possible middle-button-click actions in apps.

[swaree]

+1. My mouse wheel currently doesn't work and middle-button scrolling as described above is the only _decent_ alternative, besides using the arrow keys. I moved from Telegram Desktop to Telegram Web to avoid this "issue" but the latter has way less features.

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[swaree]

do not close

[danger89]

Definitely do not close.