Danny, thanks for the reply. I was beginning to think my message had fallen
off the edge of the Earth or something.
This is an interesting bug. It was first pointed out to me by a user of my
application, in which the thing being scrolled is a table with a fairly
heavy redraw time, so for a long time I thought that the redraw delay was at
the root of the problem. Then I few days ago I found that previous thread on
this group that said the same behavior could be seen in the MemoPad. I tried
it and sure enough, it's pretty easy to hit the bug. Kind of surprising that
with the millions of Palm users, no one has reported this problem in the
built-in apps.
The bug definitely exists in older ROMs. I have a Palm Pro (OS 2.0), a Palm
III, a Palm V, and a Palm IIIc, and I can easily see the bug in the MemoPad
on all of them. It must be some sort of timing problem, or maybe a glitch in
the screen-reading, because I've never been able to hit it using Poser
either.
Anyway, I'm happy it's finally an official bug. Too bad it wasn't brought to
light before 4.0...
--Jim Preston
"Danny Epstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:43366@palm-dev-forum...
>
> "James Preston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:43077@palm-dev-forum...
> > There seems to be a problem with scrollbars when the user drags the
thumb
> > quickly and releases.
>
> Thanks for the bug report. I was unable to find any reference to this bug
in
> our bug database, so I filed a new bug.
>
> I found it was quite easy to reproduce this bug in Memo Pad's list and
edit
> forms, as well as in every other app that uses scrollbars (including mine
> ( ). I did this on a Palm IIIx running a release Palm OS 4.0 ROM. I
suspect
> it exists in older ROMs but I haven't checked. I was unable to reproduce
it
> on Poser or on the Mac simulator. Too bad - tracing would be a good way to
> debug this.
> --
> Danny Epstein
> OS Engineer, Palm Inc.
>
>
>
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