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Scroll wheel

A scroll wheel is a wheel used for scrolling. The term usually refers to such wheels found on computer mice (where they can also be called a mouse wheel). It is often made of hard plastic with a rubbery surface, centred around an internal rotary encoder. It is usually located between the left and right mouse buttons and is positioned perpendicular to the…

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Use the mouse wheel or two fingers (on touchscreens) to zoom in and out of the map.

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Scroll wheel

Nodes61
Edges60
Triples23
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.032787
Components1

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Scroll wheel

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related to history · 11
Scroll wheel → ETH Zürich, It, Japan, Jürg Nievergelt, Ken'ichi Fukaya, Kunio, Mighty Mouse, NTT, Other, Switzerland, The
has application · 4
Scroll wheel → For, In, Scroll-wheel, Some
related to Functionality · 2
Scroll wheel → In, The
is a · 1
Scroll wheel → wheel used for scrolling

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wheel mouse scroll scrolling also left mice right button wheels often allow using usually buttons user switch used known pointing

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Scroll wheelis awheel used for scrolling0.90text
early Sony modelsinstance ofIt had been based on ideas developed by Eric Michelman since 1993 with input from Chris Graham.Scroll wheels can also be found on PDAs and mobiles phones0.80text
BlackBerry devicesinstance ofIt had been based on ideas developed by Eric Michelman since 1993 with input from Chris Graham.Scroll wheels can also be found on PDAs and mobiles phones0.80text
Nokia 7110instance ofIt had been based on ideas developed by Eric Michelman since 1993 with input from Chris Graham.Scroll wheels can also be found on PDAs and mobiles phones0.80text
which usually have the function of navigating through menusinstance ofIt had been based on ideas developed by Eric Michelman since 1993 with input from Chris Graham.Scroll wheels can also be found on PDAs and mobiles phones0.80text
Autodesk's AutoCAD use the mouse wheel to navigate the space in which the user is drawinginstance ofSome of them and most real-time strategy games also use the scroll wheel to zoom in and out of the player's view.CAD applications0.80text
Scroll wheelhas applicationScroll-wheel0.60section
Scroll wheelhas applicationFor0.60section
Scroll wheelhas applicationIn0.60section
Scroll wheelhas applicationSome0.60section
Scroll wheelrelated to FunctionalityThe0.60section
Scroll wheelrelated to FunctionalityIn0.60section

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