Hello Jonathan, Sunday, April 25, 2004, 9:12:58 PM, you wrote: >> 1. If you use the spacebar to move between messages, while the focus is >> on the preview pane, and you move into a long message and continue >> using the space bar to move down the message and then hit the >> down arrow key, the message then jumps back to the top of the >> message. I believe it is because there is no cooperation between the >> movement on the screen and the cursor.
JA> This doesn't entirely make sense to me. I assume you mean that you use JA> the cursor keys (up/down) to move about in the message body, then you JA> hit the space bar to move to the next message right? I use a combination of the space bar and the arrow keys to move between messages and to move within messages. The fact that when you use the space bar to move from one message to the next and the fact that it moves to the top of the message is the way it should be. JA> And you don't want it to move to the top of the next message? See above. JA> Or am I missing something? I think so. JA> If I navigate back to the long message I just scrolled to the JA> bottom of, I can see it has moved back up to the top, which I can JA> understand it doing, but I'm not understanding your issue. Try this: 1) Use the space bar to go from one message into the long message. 2) Hit the space bar again to move one page down in the long message. 3) Hit the down arrow key. (You may want to do this when the last line you are trying to read is half way on the bottom of the page) 4) When you hit the arrow key the message you are reading jumps back to the top of the long message. (This is not what I would have expected. The problem is that as you move in the message using the space bar the cursor does not move with it and when you hit the arrow key the message jumps back to the cursor. >> 2. When your start reading a message with the cursor at the top of the >> preview pane and start scrolling down with the down arrow key, the >> page starts to scroll and the cursor starts to go down the page, but >> not at the same rate. As you continue down the page and the cursor >> gets to the bottom of the page the movement of the page starts to >> jump around as the cursor seems to bounce off the bottom and the >> page seems to scroll between half a line to one line to 2 lines at a >> time. A good example message is to try reading a bug note, by >> scrolling down with the spacebar one line at a time. JA> Interesting... I don't see much of an issue here... If I use page JA> up/down, then the scrollbar resizes as I move up and down the page... JA> using the up and down cursor keys, I don't see an issue... But I don't JA> really consider the page up/down to be much of an issue myself either. I am not talking about using the page up/down keys at all, just the arrow keys. 1) Start by opening the long message and putting the blinking cursor right at the beginning. 2) Now use the down arrow key to move down the document. 3) As you move down the page you are viewing will start scrolling up. 4) The cursor that started at the top of the page now starts moving down the page. 5) I don't consider this to be normal. Usually the cursor will either stay put, while the page scrolls or the cursor will move down the page until it reaches the bottom and then the page will start to scroll. 6) Once the cursor in The Bat does reach the bottom it then seems to bounce off the bottom and then go up and down as you continue to scroll. 7) This then creates a problem at the top of the preview screen as I tend to read the text just before it scrolls off the top of the screen. Instead of scrolling off one row of text at a time it will sometimes move half a line, sometimes one line and sometimes 2 lines. >> I would also support the removal of the cursor altogether or at >> least an option to turn it off. JA> Erm... how would you highlight text for reply? This is the way the preview pane worked in previous versions. I just use the mouse to select text. I realize that many people may want to use the arrow keys to select text, thus the option to turn off the blinking cursor. I just noticed that you are using he Bat! v2.10.01. Maybe this problem was fixed and this has been a meaningless discussion. If so please let me know. :) -- Stuart mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Using The Bat! v2.10 on Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.10.01 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
