On 22 Sep 2002 at 17:07, Mark D. Lew wrote: > At 4:50 PM 09/22/02, Linda Worsley wrote: > > >Yes, but page down leaves the cursor where you have put it in every > >program I use. Microsoft word. Filemaker Pro. Eudora.... > > > >The down arrow moves the cursor, but leaves the scrolling alone. The > >two act independently, and anything else doesn't make sense. > > My Windows experience is limited, but I think that the standard in Windows > applications is that scrolling the page up or down is not allowed to push > the cursor outside of the visible area of the window. So if you scroll the > page so that the cursor would be moved off the bottom, it gets repositioned > so that it appears at the bottom of the area that remains visible. Same > idea at the top if you scroll the other way
Er, not exactly. The cursor control keys are: Arrows: Up, Down, Left, Right Home End PageUp PageDown Those keys move the cursor, as was the case in all computer interfaces before GUIs. For scrolling the window, we have scroll bars, because scrolling the window, as opposed to moving the cursor, is a concept inherent to the graphical interface. Scroll bars make no sense in a text-only interface. Likewise, in a graphical interface, having two of the cursor movement keys duplicate functionality available with the mouse seems a complete waste of two perfectly good keys. Moving the scroll bars does nothing to cursor position. Utilize the cursor movement keys, by definition, moves the cursor. In order that the cursor remains visible, it also scrolls the window *if* the cursor movement places the cursor outside the area that was previously visible. > I find this a little awkward since I'm not used to it, but I'm sure it > feels normal to those who are. The Mac way is the minority way. It wastes good keys on the keyboard. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
