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- From: johnt@pilot.njin.net (John Thiruvathukal)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: O Things OS/2 has or can do that Windows doesn't or can't do. (Grammar?)
- Keywords: Scroll
- Message-ID: <Jul.21.21.02.37.1992.8726@pilot.njin.net>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 01:02:37 GMT
- Followup-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
- Lines: 30
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- Just an other addendum to the growing list of things that OS/2 has
- that Win 3.1 doesn't:
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- SCALABLE SCROLL BOXES
-
- Did you ever work on a long files in some Windows app which was too
- long to all fit on one screen that you really did't know how long it
- was?
-
- Or worse, one that was just small enough to fit on one screen with
- nothing over the edges?
-
- I'm sure you have, but the Windows scroll boxes don't give you any
- real indication as to how long the file really is, which can sometimes
- drive you insane.
-
- In OS/2 the scroll boxes in the those handy dandy little scroll bars,
- scale themselves automatically to show you what proportion of the
- current document you are currently viewing with respect to the size of
- the whole document.
-
- For example: If you are looking at half of a document, the scroll box
- would scale itself so that the scroll box is half the size of the
- scroll bar. And if you are looking at the whole document the scroll
- box occupies the entire area of the scroll bar, and will no move.
-
- Pretty nifty, huh?!
-
- George Thiruvathukal
-