Background: In VFP 9 text editor windows, Office 2003 apps, and FireFox 1.5 you can click your mousewheel and enter a mode where moving your mouse scrolls the underlying container in the direction of your mouse movement. A transparent mouse-pointer sized window is displayed at the point where the mousewheel was originally clicked. This window stays displayed as a reference point for user mouse movements.

Questions:

1. Is there an official name for this "mouse wheel click and scroll" behavior?

2. Any suggestions on how to implement this type of user interface in a VFP application, i.e. is there a Windows API being used or a native VFP "mouse wheel click and scroll" mode that we can invoke?

I'm looking for a way to display this user interface and bindevent to the scroll messages as part of a scrollable container class project.

Malcolm