Help with disabling mouse wheel directions

[NW5o4vTsxVyAY4AY]

Hi,

I'm looking for a way to disable one mouse wheel direction while the opposite direction is being used, i.e. disable WheelUp while using WheelDown and vice versa.

The reason is that I experience a "scroll jumping" issue that doesn't seem to be directly hardware or software related, it's just that my mouse wheel is quite sensitive when scrolling quickly.

I've tried approaching the issue with a couple of different script ideas but nothing worked, or only partially.

Any ideas would be appreciated.


Cheers

[Marko]

Create two shortcuts: WheelUp and WheelDown with the following script (Type: Command)

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If (A_ThisHotkey=A_PriorHotkey)
   Send {%A_ThisHotkey%}
return

[NW5o4vTsxVyAY4AY]

Thanks for your suggestion, it works well and reduces the "scroll jumping" issue at least a bit for me.

If you used a different shortcut before, the first time you want to scroll in one direction you have to scroll twice for it to trigger (I assume because the first scroll is needed to define "A_ThisHotkey=A_PriorHotkey"?).
But that's no problem for me because I rarely scroll only once anyway.

Thanks again and best regards.

[Marko]

You are correct, this was the measure I used to prevent the issue. There may be other, more complicated methods.

[NW5o4vTsxVyAY4AY]

Sorry for the bump, but I looked into my issue some more and found a different solution that works great for my needs so far.

Perhaps I didn't explain the issue clearly enough before. While physically scrolling the mousewheel several notches in one direction in quick succession, it would occasionally jump one or more notches in the other direction (here's a gif showing it happening while I'm physically scrolling only down, never up).

So I needed a way to be able to quickly scroll in one direction while making scrolling into the opposite direction temporarily impossible, but without breaking the ability to switch scroll directions without hassle.
Anyway, the solution turned out to be much simpler than I thought:

Shortcut: WheelUp
Command:

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If (A_PriorHotkey="WheelDown" AND A_TimeSincePriorHotkey<=100)
   Sleep 100
Else
   Send {WheelUp}
Return

Shortcut: WheelDown
Command:

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If (A_PriorHotkey="WheelUp" AND A_TimeSincePriorHotkey<=100)
   Sleep 100
Else
   Send {WheelDown}
Return

Thanks again for all your support.