can u emulate a mouse wheel function ?

[AndrewChong]

certain games lik warcraft 3 beta and battle realms requires the Mouse wheel to change the camera view within the game... i got 4 computers here and only 1 has a wheel.. are they any programs that can set keyboards buttons as mouse wheel function

 

[CZroe]

Linux can "emulate" the third button... Or is that the Window system for Linux? I dunno I'm a Wintel moron... It's an option when installing RedHat
About the wheel, I'm sure it's possible. PC Mag has a utility that uses the wheel for all kinds of things (Task-Switching, etc) and I'm sure its source code would help (They always distribute source with it)

 

[fr]

Is it really so hard to get a wheel mouse? I think you would save yourself a bit of trouble by just getting one and it is useful for other things besides playing games.

Staples has one for $7.49

http://www.staples.com/Catalog/Browse/SKU.asp?BCFlag=False&PageType=1&SKU=IM1115028

 

[Nefrodite]

just to lower the importance of the wheel, zooming in war3 beta is absolutely useless. u can zoom in, but not really out. the default is perfect distance, zooming in is left there for kicks. it isn't pretty once u zoom in either.