Mouse wheel strange behavior

[Bryan Bentz]

I've got Windows 7, Pegasus version 4.61; though I believe this
behavior occurred under Vista and earlier versions of Pegasus as well:

The scroll wheel works fine if I've got a folder or list of folders
selected; however, if I click on the background and move the wheel,
all windows inside Pegasus disappear; I'm left with just the
background, and no indication that the windows have been iconified.
Rather, it looks like they're all closed. I can bring them back by
choosing "Window/Tile" from the menus, but then I have to resize them
and move them to the way I'd like them to be.

I noticed this behavior some time ago, and in the rush of life didn't
think to mention it or look for a solution; I've just conditioned
myself never to touch the mouse wheel while in Pegasus. Now my wife
is using it, and it's becoming a more annoying problem.

Right now the mouse is a somewhat generic USB mouse, but the same
behaviors occurred using other mice, e.g. wireless.

(If anyone replies, could you also please send me an email at
be...@bentz-engineering.com - )

[Nil]

On 24 Jul 2011, Bryan Bentz <be...@bentz-engineering.com> wrote in
comp.mail.pegasus-mail.ms-windows:

> I've got Windows 7, Pegasus version 4.61; though I believe this
> behavior occurred under Vista and earlier versions of Pegasus as
> well:
>
> The scroll wheel works fine if I've got a folder or list of
> folders selected; however, if I click on the background and move
> the wheel, all windows inside Pegasus disappear; I'm left with
> just the background, and no indication that the windows have been
> iconified.

I have XP and Windows 7 computers, and I don't see that behaviour.

[Bjorn S.]

Bryan Bentz wrote in
<b8446f9e-3cfe-498f...@gh5g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>
(Sun, 24 Jul 2011 05:30:11 -0700 (PDT)):

>I've got Windows 7, Pegasus version 4.61; though I believe this
>behavior occurred under Vista and earlier versions of Pegasus as well:
>
>The scroll wheel works fine if I've got a folder or list of folders
>selected; however, if I click on the background and move the wheel,
>all windows inside Pegasus disappear; I'm left with just the
>background, and no indication that the windows have been iconified.
>Rather, it looks like they're all closed. I can bring them back by
>choosing "Window/Tile" from the menus, but then I have to resize them
>and move them to the way I'd like them to be.

Does not happen here (Win 7 Home Prem, 32-bit, Pegasus 4.61) and never
seen that behavior before.

Fwiw from you description it sounds as if you are scrolling down the
background Pegasus desktop - and scrolling so far the other open
windows ends up outside of the visible screen area. Thus you need to
do Windows/Tile or Cascade to get them in sight again. In other words
it sound as one would expect things to happen when one or more windows
in Windows have "drifted off screen" (or rather - you have :).

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All the best,
Bjorn S. - I only post via <news.individual.net>

[thomas...@gmail.com]

I recently encountered a similar issue and have thus far not discovered a solution. We replaced 10 desktops at work - Windows 7 64-bit. We're running Pegasus 4.63. The mouse that was included with the 10 desktops work fine with Pegasus. However, we have one user who wanted to use her Microsoft Comfort Optical Mouse 3000. It worked fine with Windows and every program she uses except for Pegasus. In Pegasus the scroll wheel does not scroll. I installed the most recent driver but that did not resolve the issue. So for now she has gone back to using the mouse that came with the desktops. No idea what is different with Pegasus where the mouse is concerned than other programs but clearly there is some difference.

[mailveil...@yahoo.com]

This is in reply to message of Mon, 14 Jan 2013 07:56:33 -0800 (PST),

I have also experienced this problem and for me the solution was to ensure
that none of the windows (say Folders, New Mail and messages) come close to
the Pegasus desktop boundary. In short the problem only arose if the
desktop slider are showing so the desktop must always be maximized. Since
taking these precautions the problem has not occurred again.

Mike
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