synaptics + Wireshark scrolling

[Marin85]

Hi,
I´ve been always experiencing this annoying issue with not being able to scroll in wireshark at all. Following some advice in the web, I tried adding the GTK+ calls in both TP4scrol.dat and TP4table.dat (currently running Windows 7 beta) as well as specifically under ;wireshark, but it doesn´t seem to improve anything. Maybe, I´m missing something here...

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; Wireshark
*,*,wireshark.exe,*,*,*,gdkWindowTopLevel,*,gdkWindowChild,WheelStd,0,9
; GTK+
*,*,*,gdkWindowTopLevel,*,gdkWindowChild,WheelStd,0,9

Thanks in advance for any input!

Marin

[yak]

There seems to be something wrong with Wireshark GTK UI because I'm not only unable to scroll using the TrackPoint but even the wheel on my mouse. I'm not sure if this is a general GTK/Windows problem or just the way Wireshark was compiled.

[Marin85]

Indeed strange... As opposite to your experience I´m fully able to scroll in wireshark using the wheel of my ThinkPad usb travel mouse...go figure... Also, some folks with Alps touchpads don´t seem to be experiencing this issue. For reference https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=480477. It seems no one has come up with a definitive answer yet, or at least I didn´t manage to find any.

[yak]

Wait, I just realized I wasn't able to scroll using the wheel because I was running Wireshark as an administrator. I'm not able to scroll with the wheel in any app with leveraged privileges in Win7, nor was I able in Vista.

I can scroll using the wheel when running as a standard user. My two-fingers-scroll tool works too as it simulates the wheel. However, the TrackPoint scrolling does not work. So, my experience is same as yours.

Sorry for the confusion.

[Marin85]

Ah ok, at least it seems now to be an issue just with synaptics and wireshark What I find really amusing, this problem has been present for ages now and still no one seems to bother to investigate it...

[yak]

Have you tried it this way?

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; Wireshark
*,*,wireshark.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9

How do you make sure the driver has reloaded the definitions? Did you reboot?

I would check this myself but I'm in the middle of something and don't want to reboot.

[Marin85]

Have you tried it this way?

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; Wireshark
*,*,wireshark.exe,*,*,*,WheelStd,0,9

Yes, this was actually the first thing I tried as it has always been the "standard" way for me to add the trackpad scrolling capability in various programs. Usually I simply restart the SynTPEnh.exe process, this has always worked for me (except for wireshark anyway). I also then tried rebooting, but to no avail either.