I've never tried it, but I believe you could modify this behavior with custom toolwindows that you develop yourself. There is no way to make a modification that would change this behavior for the entire IDE. VS is just using the standard windows mouse scroll behavior where the window with focus receives the scrolling messages. I have seen applications that modifiy this behavior (such as the 3rd party programmer's editor, SlickEdit) so it is technically possible.
I think you are going to have to wait and see what the reply is to the Connect post and see if it gets any votes.
Hi Darren, yes it's definitely feasible, we have in house apps that do it and I've seen commercial apps that do it too, and as I remarked this discussion forum itself does it.
It's a little bit tricky, the focus window can easily determine whether or not the pointer is within its bounds, if it is then it does its stuff, if it isn't it needs to determine which window is under the pointer, give that window focus, relay the scroll wheeel message to that window with the request "when you're done scrolling return focus to me".
I was not anticipating that I'd get an answer here, but as my original interlocutor suggested I might then I it would have been impolite not to try.
Cheers from RightPaddock
