On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 03:18 AM, Ken Ray wrote: >> It seems that a revolution listfield (with "autohilite" "listbehaviour" >> + >> "click to toggle" checkboxes all true) wants to scroll the hilited line >> to >> the vertical centre of the field, at all times, and of course that's > really >> undesirable here, I want it to stay where it was when I clicked it, >> unless >> I'm actually dragging and the field needs to scroll to bring other lines >> into view, which is what I'm used to in HC, windowscript, and in fact all >> other mac apps that let you 'peel off' a line from a scrolling field. >> >> Sigh... if I anybody knows a way to subvert this "feature"... > > I'm glad you brought this up. I ran into the same behavior in attempting > to > create a table object. I would sincerely recommend that Rev/MC change this > "feature" so that it only scrolls if the hilite is at the bottom or top of > the field.
The behavior is in the engine, and Scott Raney and I have had a couple of conversations about it. I don't know of any other application on any platform that pops a selected line to the middle the way MC/Rev does. It is hugely disorienting to the user. The way the Control Browser in MC bounces around has always made me crazy, and I talked Scott into changing the script in the 2.4.2 browser to block the behavior -- but it still remains in the engine and we have to work around it in our scripts. I think the engine should eliminate the behavior entirely. Scott's argument is that it is necessary in order for the Control Browser to display the right line when a user clicks on an object in the stack window, but I think that behavior could be easily controlled by a script rather than by the engine. The disadvantages of auto-centering a selected line in almost all user applications far outweigh the small advantages that occur within the development environment. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
