Re: scrolling (three questions)
Ronald Florence wrote: > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> You should find that the xforms frontend does have a more >> manageable scrolling behaviour. > > I've used LyX from before version 1.0, with xforms and qt frontends, > and don't remember the scrolling ever being satisfactory. I wish it > were better, but have from necessity developed -- as I suspect other > LyX users have -- workarounds. Why can't the scrolling be fixed? > It would be very useful to be able to mark large blocks of text with > the mouse. It was fixed only in the last major release, 1.3.x, and only in the xforms frontend. The fix is trivial (for Qt too) and requires that LyX responds only to a subset of mouse events from the underlying X11, MacOS or Win32 graphics libraries. In the xforms frontend we use a timer, so: // The timer runs for 200ms static Timer timer(200); if (timer.running()) return; timer.start(); dispatch(mouse_event_to_the_lyx_core); This could go in, almost as is, to the mouseEventHandler in QContentPane.C. Feel free to try ;-) -- Angus
Re: scrolling (three questions)
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:31:20PM -0500, Ronald Florence wrote: > LyX users have -- workarounds. Why can't the scrolling be fixed? It > would be very useful to be able to mark large blocks of text with the > mouse. It could be fixed. It just needs somebody to do it. john -- Khendon's Law: If the same point is made twice by the same person, the thread is over.
Re: scrolling (three questions)
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You should find that the xforms frontend does have a more manageable > scrolling behaviour. I've used LyX from before version 1.0, with xforms and qt frontends, and don't remember the scrolling ever being satisfactory. I wish it were better, but have from necessity developed -- as I suspect other LyX users have -- workarounds. Why can't the scrolling be fixed? It would be very useful to be able to mark large blocks of text with the mouse. -- Ronald Florence www.18james.com
Re: scrolling (three questions)
Vladimir Smagley wrote: > So, what you are saying - there is no way to slow down scrolling? > Sounds strange, since > scrolling is done right even in very primitive text editors... Let's just say that the guys implementing the Qt frontend had more important things to do. Like provide a Qt frontend in the first place. Remember, this is the very first version of LyX where you don't have to use xforms. You should find that the xforms frontend does have a more manageable scrolling behaviour. -- Angus
scrolling (three questions)
So, what you are saying - there is no way to slow down scrolling? Sounds strange, since scrolling is done right even in very primitive text editors... Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:58:35PM -0700, Vladimir Smagley wrote: 1) When I use mouse to highlight large chunks of text (bigger than the size of open Lyx window), scrolling goes too fast, by the time I stop highlighting, I usually go far far away from the place where I intended to stop. Is there any way to slow down scrolling while highlighting using mouse? It's easier to use the shift key. Click on where you want to start highlighting, then hold the shift-key down and press page-down. You can use the down and up-arrows and cursor movement keys to move the selection end-point around. You can try looking at http://www.lyx.org/help for your other questions. I don't know the answers off the top of my head. ---Kayvan
