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77 lines
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# jQuery Mouse Wheel Plugin
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A [jQuery](http://jquery.com/) plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support with delta normalization.
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In order to use the plugin, simply bind the `mousewheel` event to an element.
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It also provides two helper methods called `mousewheel` and `unmousewheel`
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that act just like other event helper methods in jQuery.
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The event object is updated with the normalized `deltaX` and `deltaY` properties.
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In addition there is a new property on the event object called `deltaFactor`. Multiply
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the `deltaFactor` by `deltaX` or `deltaY` to get the scroll distance that the browser
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has reported.
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Here is an example of using both the bind and helper method syntax:
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```js
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// using on
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$('#my_elem').on('mousewheel', function(event) {
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console.log(event.deltaX, event.deltaY, event.deltaFactor);
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});
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// using the event helper
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$('#my_elem').mousewheel(function(event) {
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console.log(event.deltaX, event.deltaY, event.deltaFactor);
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});
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```
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The old behavior of adding three arguments (`delta`, `deltaX`, and `deltaY`) to the
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event handler is now deprecated and will be removed in later releases.
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## The Deltas...
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The combination of Browsers, Operating Systems, and Devices offer a huge range of possible delta values. In fact if the user
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uses a trackpad and then a physical mouse wheel the delta values can differ wildly. This plugin normalizes those
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values so you get a whole number starting at +-1 and going up in increments of +-1 according to the force or
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acceleration that is used. This number has the potential to be in the thousands depending on the device.
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Check out some of the data collected from users [here](http://mousewheeldatacollector.herokuapp.com/).
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### Getting the scroll distance
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In some use-cases we prefer to have the normalized delta but in others we want to know how far the browser should
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scroll based on the users input. This can be done by multiplying the `deltaFactor` by the `deltaX` or `deltaY`
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event property to find the scroll distance the browser reported.
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The `deltaFactor` property was added to the event object in 3.1.5 so that the actual reported delta value can be
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extracted. This is a non-standard property.
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## Using with [Browserify](http://browserify.org)
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Support for browserify is baked in.
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```bash
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npm install jquery-mousewheel
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npm install jquery-browserify
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```
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In your server-side node.js code:
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```js
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var express = require('express');
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var app = express.createServer();
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app.use(require('browserify')({
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require : [ 'jquery-browserify', 'jquery-mousewheel' ]
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}));
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```
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In your browser-side javascript:
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```js
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var $ = require('jquery-browserify');
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require('jquery-mousewheel')($);
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```
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