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Re: Small observations and suggestions.
>>>>> "John" == John Edward Bauer <jbauer@plains.nodak.edu> writes:
John> I have noticed that in the E/D version that just clicking on
John> a scroll bar arrow will move the corresponding text. For
John> instance moving text up and down in the tex-edit. In the E/L
John> version one must move the mouse slightly to make the
John> corresponding text move.
I think this is an X11 bug related to two-button mice. The same thing
happens in Emacs and other X apps on my two-button system, and it
doesn't happen on ARDI's three-button system. My guess is that when X
sees a mouse down event, it doesn't know if you're trying to hit both
mouse buttons "simultaneously" to emulate the third button, or if you
really do just want that single button. Once the mouse moves, or the
button is released, the X server knows that you actually wanted just
the single button and the event is sent on to the X app.
John> And the suggestion. If possible make the text movement in
John> realtime. I have not seen one mac application on a *real*
John> mac do this, including netscape, where realtime scrolling
John> makes it so much easier to scroll through documents.
I also like realtime scrolling better, but because those aren't the
Mac semantics we would almost certainly break many programs if we
tried to do this.
-Mat
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