MATLAB: How to use accelerated mouse scrolling with the Microsoft Intellimouse with MATLAB 7.2 (R2006a)

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Accelerated mouse scrolling is a function included with the Microsoft Mouse driver that allows text scroll speed to be proportional to the rotational speed of the scroll wheel on the mouse.
I am able to use use the accelerated scrolling feature in Excel, Mathcad, Word, etc., but not in MATLAB 7.2 (R2006a).

Best Answer

The ability to use accelerated mouse scolling is not available in MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a) or earlier, which use Java version 1.5.
To verify the Java Virtual Machine version being used by MATLAB, execute the following command at the MATLAB Command prompt:
version -java
To work around this issue, upgrade to a version of MATLAB that uses Java version 1.6 or later such as MATLAB 7.4 (R2007a) or later.
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