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How to scroll with the mouse horizontally

 
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Howdy folks

According to this thread the MouseWheelEvent class doesn't support horizontal scrolling. I've looked through the Java API and Google for alternatives but no luck.

Suggestions?

NOTE: I'm fairly sure it should be possible. Scrolling horizontally with the mouse works within a JScrollPane.

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use a scrollpane and set vertical to never, then set horizontal scrollbar height to 0
 
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Michael Dunn wrote:use a scrollpane and set vertical to never, then set horizontal scrollbar height to 0



You don't need to set the horizontal scrollbar height to 0. At least not with the Metal LAF on JDK6. Unless, of course, your goal is to hide the horizontal scrollbar.
 
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> Unless, of course, your goal is to hide the horizontal scrollbar.

yes.

the OP states horizontal scrolling in a scrollpane is fine,
so I guessed perhaps he wants something without the scrollbar showing.
 
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I think Olivier simply wants to get an event when the user scrolls horizontally. For vertical scrolling there is MouseWheelListener with MouseWheelEvent, but there is no such thing for horizontal scrolling yet. There's already an accepted but unsolved bug report for that.

If the component itself supports horizontal scrolling then you can use an AdjustmentListener on the JScrollPane's horizontal scroll bar. This will be notified when the scroll bar's position changes, a side effect of the scrolling.
 
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> I think Olivier simply wants to get an event when the user scrolls horizontally.

probably is what he wants, I was more going by his subject line "How to scroll with the mouse horizontally"

I still don't see the his problem though, the mouseWheelListener works for horizontal scolling, if there's
no vertical scrollbar
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