Scroll Reverser

Reverse the direction of scrolling on macOS.

Home page: https://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/

License

Licensed under Apache License 2.0.

Building

After cloning this repo, you'll need to git submodule update --init to check out the BuildScripts submodule.

Notes on the code

The 'master' branch build targets 10.7 and higher.

Older code targeting 10.4+ is in the 'tiger' branch.

The real guts of the code is in MouseTap.m. Everything else is just user interface rigging.

Scroll Reverser installs an event tap, which gives access to event stream, including scrolling events and gesture events. The main documentation is Quartz Event Services Reference.

To distinguish between trackpad and mouse, Scroll Reverser essentially looks at the gesture events to determine whether there are 2 or more fingers on the trackpad. If so, it assumes it is the trackpad. If not, mouse. It's a little more complicated than that as you will see, but that is the general idea.