mouse (trackpad) scroll events

Hi,
I have been using ol.mousewheel to capture scrolling events for my custom UI. Unfortunately, ol.mousewheel does not work in Max 6 anymore.
The creator of ol.mousewheel says he stopped working on it, since jit.window offers such a function. But in my UI elements, I do not wish to embed a whole jitter window. All I want is a simple read out of the scroll data. I am by no means a jitter expert, but is there a way to get at these scrolling values without the use of a jitter window?
Also, I know of the hi object, but it is impossible to automatically detect the name of any mouse of trackpad, let along which id this data is send on. I doubt there is a simple solution using the hi object.
Cant there be a mousestate object that reports the scroll info on a pulling basis? Is there a java script method to doing this perhaps? Python?
I would be great if anyone has a clue as to how I could achieve a simple and fool-proof way to read out when the user is using the scroll wheel.
Thanks a lot!