Windows Remote Desktop & UltraNav Scroll

[K. Eng]

Has anyone gotten the scroll key to work with Windows Remote Desktop? When I'm rlog'd into my desktop system everything works fine, except I can't use the blue scroll key at all (the scroll icon with the pointer shows up, but nothing will scroll).

I suspect that the scroll key is trying to scroll the window on my T40's desktop that contains the rlogin desktop.

[cynic]

Has anyone gotten the scroll key to work with Windows Remote Desktop? When I'm rlog'd into my desktop system everything works fine, except I can't use the blue scroll key at all (the scroll icon with the pointer shows up, but nothing will scroll).

I suspect that the scroll key is trying to scroll the window on my T40's desktop that contains the rlogin desktop.

I've tried to and it won't work. It seems that the scroll hook (since it's a multikey combination translated by the local driver) doesn't get passed to the remote desktop.

[K. Eng]

I guess it doesn't work Thanks anyway.

[K. Eng]

I have an interesting update. I plugged in my Microsoft Optical Mouse into my T40 to see if the scroll wheel would work in remote desktop, and amazingly enough the scroll wheel does work.

I am sure IBM could support scrolling in remote desktop with the UltraNAV drivers - I am just unsure of how to "request" this feature.

Anyone know how to contact IBM about this? I could call tech support but I don't know how useful that would be. Hopefully someone from IBM reads these forums

[cynic]

I think the regular scrolling mouses use a standard driver call, but the UltraNav scroll button uses a specific one. In this situation using the attached mouse, the transmited scroll hook is understood on the remote computer because the same generic driver is installed there.

I've noticed a similar problem with iTunes and scrolling, so my guess iTunes is using the same APIs from the generic driver and can't understand the UltraNav drivers.

Odd, for sure.