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- From: "David Herron" <david@twg.com>
- Subject: Re: scrollbar styles
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.171435.3887@twg.com>
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 17:16:56 GMT
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- > Maybe it's just familiarity from longer use, but I find the Athena
- > behaviour more convenient and richer than the up and down arrows
- > at each end of the Tk scrollbars.
-
- It probably is just familiarity from long term use. I remember being confused
- for a long time with Athena scrollbars since there is effectivly zero
- visual indication of what can be done with them.
-
- At least the Motif/TK scrollbars have an obvious way of indicating a way
- to scroll the scrollbar.
-
- BTW, Motif scrollbars also use the middle button to set the scrollbar to
- an arbitrary point while TK does not. For long lists (I have one list
- which is >1500 entries long) it is faster to go directly to a particular
- place in the list than it is to page or drag through the list to find
- the place.
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- <- David Herron <david@twg.com> (work) <david@davids.mmdf.com> (home)
- <-
- <- "ISO is really just another politically correct one-world fantasy
- <- of the U.N." -- Gordon McLachlan (LAN Computing, Aug 1992, p. 37)
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