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I have been searching for a while for a fix and messing around a bit trying to figure this out, but no luck. Is there a known issue with using the mouse's scroll wheel to navigate through XBMC on Android?
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2013-08-22, 06:19
(This post was last modified: 2013-08-22, 06:21 by Ned Scott.)
I'm not sure on the technical details, but I do know that mouse support in Android is "weird". Android itself isn't really set up to use a mouse, and it just simulates a finger press anyways. I'm guessing some stuff has to be worked around to make it behave like it does on other platforms.
EDIT: Also, I think there are some issues with XBMC for Android reading keymap files, otherwise I would suggest making a custom mouse.xml file. I don't think it would work in the Android environment, though.
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OK, thanks for the quick reply. That's what I figured. I tried just messing around with the keyboard.xml and mouse.xml, but neither of them seemed to have any effect.
Thanks again for the reply, I won't beat my head against a wall trying to figure this out now.
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no news about this? Would love to have the mouse wheel working.
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Same here, would love to use the scroll wheel of my wireless mouse.
You get so used to it in the rest of android (browsers,etc), and the scroll bar in XBMC is quite small and thus hard to easily find with the mouse cursor.
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2013-11-18, 06:13
(This post was last modified: 2013-11-18, 06:25 by mindsurfer.)
XBMC without mouse wheel support on Android TV boxes is unusable.
I suppose XBMC is mainly used on device like these +big TV, there is no big advantage to use it on phone or tablet.
Please add mouse wheel support.
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Next nightly will have the mouse wheel support.
Just for a heads up - XBMC is not really ment to be used with a mouse. Its ment to be used with some sort of remote control. So while your statement (XBMC is unusable without mouse wheel support) might be true for your use case - i just don't get why people keep generalising their issues... If this all was true - XBMC wouldn't be used by anyone ...
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2013-11-19, 03:58
(This post was last modified: 2013-11-19, 04:00 by Ned Scott.)
XBMC is meant to be used in the living room (aka, the ten foot interface). Traditional mice (before air mice were around) weren't very easy to use in the living room, while remotes and game controllers are.
Air mice, touch controls, and gestures will likely change this in the future, but it's still all about controls that are easy to use in a typical XBMC environment.