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- From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (John Fieber)
- Subject: Re: GUIs Considered Harmful
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.145345.17065@sophia.smith.edu>
- Sender: root@sophia.smith.edu (Operator)
- Organization: Smith College
- References: <id.P72T.O1C@ferranti.com> <1992Sep9.235620.25510@spider.co.uk> <oefiyZO00VAt5mSIYY@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 14:53:45 GMT
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- In article <oefiyZO00VAt5mSIYY@andrew.cmu.edu> fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu (Faisal Nameer Jawdat) writes:
- >NeXT scrollbars are the ONLY good implementation of this I have seen -
-
- Except for one small detail, scrollbars on the Amiga work exactly
- like those on the NeXT. (or was that the other way around?)
- Difference: clicking in the scrollspace moves the "knob" by the
- height (or width) of the knob. The difference is with the Amiga,
- I typically do a click to move a short distance and a drag to
- move a long distance. The NeXT is just the reverse. Six one,
- half a dozen the other I guess.
-
- >click somewhere in the scroll space and the bar moves right there (the
- >bar is also sized proportionally to the visible space / scrollable
- >space ratio), move the bar by dragging it around, and the workspace
-
- I always took proportional scrollbars for granted until I
- recently started working on a Mac. If you are going to use up
- precious screen space with scroll bars, they should at least
- convey as much useful information as possible. In a text editor,
- for example, with a proportional scroll bar you can at a quick
- glance not only tell where you are in a document, but how big the
- document is.
-
- It really baffles me why other window systems have not adopted
- proportional scroll bars. It is not like they are a new concept
- or something---the Amiga has been using them for about 7 years
- now. (And I seriously doubt Commodore would try to sue anybody
- else who used them!)
-
- -john
-
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