Aside from just page scrolling, is there anyone else who things that the
end-arrows scroll far too slowly? One pixel at a time is painful.
I've got a patch ready for 12 pixels at a time. ;)
Ben
On Wednesday, July 11, 2001, at 10:32 PM, Chris Hawks wrote:
> ---Reply to mail from Michael Nordstr�m about Scroll values (was: Don't
> like it)
>
>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001, Chris Hawks wrote:
>>> I've been watching the 'scroll' discussions of late and while I agree
>>> that
>>> we did leave a little too much of the old text on the screen when we
>>> scrolled on page, simply scrolling the _entire_ page is BAD.
>>
>> Yep, and I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one with that opinion.
>>
>> However, since it wasn't possible to convince some users about this I
>> changed the scroll size to 145 in 1.1.7 (just to prove my point -- it
>> was never added to CVS, only included in the binary). In 1.1.9 I used
>> 140 and in the next version I will either use 135 or your suggestion
>> (window height - height of largest font).
>>
>> I'll try to come up with a better solution (bug report #6), but it's
>> not trivial (images add an extra level of complexity).
>
> Or try this...
>
> Leave SCROLL_ONE_PAGE at 145 and patch get_scroll_value in util.c like
> this:
>
> --- ../../plucker-1.1/viewer/util.c Fri Feb 9 17:56:21 2001
> +++ ./util.c Wed Jul 11 21:20:53 2001
> @@ -166,9 +166,9 @@
> Int16 GetScrollValue(void)
> {
> if (Prefs()->toolbar == frmMainNone)
> - return SCROLL_ONE_PAGE + 15;
> + return SCROLL_ONE_PAGE - FntLineHeight() + 15;
> else
> - return SCROLL_ONE_PAGE;
> + return SCROLL_ONE_PAGE - FntLineHeight();
> }
>
>
> /***********************************************************************
>
> That scrolls one page minus the height of the current font (which just
> drew
> the page).
>
> ---End reply
>
> Christopher R. Hawks
> HAWKSoft
>
> LINUX, the OS for people with an IQ over 98 :->
>
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