Terry,

Tuesday, April 20, 2004, 7:17:00 AM, you wrote:
T> Hi all,

T> Upgraded to 2.10 the other day and have noticed some different
T> behaviour while scrolling through long messages in the preview pane.

T> I can move the mouse over the folders pane, message list pane or
T> preview pane without the necessity of physically selecting any of the
T> panes. The focus for scrolling works perfectly. There's no need to
T> "select" the window by clicking it, selecting a message or a folder
T> prior to scrolling.

T> That's the same as the previous version. Here is where the behaviour
T> has changed.

T> In all other versions (at least the ones I've had), I could scroll
T> through a long message without having it physically selected (i.e.
T> clicking inside of it first). If I came across a link I wanted to open
T> or some text I wanted to select, I just pointed and clicked. Worked
T> great.

T> That doesn't work anymore. I can still scroll without physically
T> selecting the message. But if I attempt to click a link or select some
T> text, the message in that window moves back up to the beginning of the
T> message and text is selected from the point where I tried to click in
T> the message back up to the bottom line that's now displayed in the
T> preview pane. For example, if 10 lines display at a time in the
T> preview pane and I scroll down a few screens and then try to click on
T> a link that is on line 40, the message scrolls itself back up so the
T> first 10 lines are displayed again and the lines from 10 to 40 are
T> selected.

T> If I physically select the preview pane by clicking inside of it prior
T> to scrolling, I can then select text or click a link as normal.

T> Is anyone else experiencing this?  Am I missing some setting somewhere
T> that changed when I upgraded?



Confirmed here as well. The previous behavior was great. Hopefully the
developers will fix this so we are all happy again <g>.

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Michael Rudnick                         
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