Using the mouse scrollwheel in GLUT

Question

I want to use the mouse scrollwheel in my OpenGL GLUT program to zoom in and out of a scene? How do I do that?

Answer 1

observe case 3 and 4 in the switch statement below in the mouseClick callback

glutMouseFunc(mouseClick);

...

void mouseClick(int btn, int state, int x, int y) {
  if (state == GLUT_DOWN) {
    switch(btn) {
    case GLUT_LEFT_BUTTON:
      std::cout << "left click at: (" << x << ", " << y << ")\n";
      break;
    case GLUT_RIGHT_BUTTON:
      std::cout << "right click at: (" << x << ", " << y << ")\n";
      break;
    case GLUT_MIDDLE_BUTTON:
      std::cout << "middle click at: (" << x << ", " << y << ")\n";
      break;
    case 3:  //mouse wheel scrolls
      std::cout << "mouse wheel scroll up\n";
      break;
    case 4:
      std::cout << "mouse wheel scroll down\n";
      break;
    default:
      break;
    }
  }
  glutPostRedisplay();
}