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Received: from sloth.swcp.com (sloth.swcp.com [198.59.115.25]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id DAA09856 for <executor@nacm.com>; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 03:48:43 -0700 Received: from iclone.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by sloth.swcp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with UUCP id EAA28373; Fri, 25 Aug 1995 04:48:39 -0600 Received: from gwar.ardi.com by mailhost with smtp (nextstep Smail3.1.29.0 #11) id m0slwFU-000YbnC; Fri, 25 Aug 95 04:44 MDT Received: by gwar.ardi.com (linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0slwFR-000GOkC; Fri, 25 Aug 95 04:44 MDT Message-Id: <m0slwFR-000GOkC@gwar.ardi.com> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 95 04:44 MDT From: mat@ardi.com (Mat Hostetter) To: John Edward Bauer <jbauer@plains.nodak.edu> Cc: executor@nacm.com Subject: Re: Small observations and suggestions. In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950825050112.5716A-100000@plains> References: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950825050112.5716A-100000@plains> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >>>>> "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