*Jim Hartley* typed up the following on 19-Nov-07 07:58 (GMT +11):
M Henri Day wrote:
2007/11/18, Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:13:53 +0000
Xerardo Arias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
writer automatically returns to the page that the cursor is active on.
Where else would it go? In other words, where do you think it should
put
the
cursor in that situation?
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Frank, I interpreted Xerardo to mean thatthe cursor returns of itself
to the
original position when he releases the scroll wheel or the mouse button,
instead of, as he had expected, staying where it was on the page when he
lifts his hand. I, too, would find the behavior he describes
undesirable....
Henri
Just letting go of the mouse does not pop it back to the previous
position of the cursor, but then taking other actions sometimes does
(things like clicking on a menu item up top, as I recall). If you
scroll-wheel somewhere and want to do stuff there, left-click somewhere
in the text in the area you're looking at.
Sometimes I find it annoying, too, but I've never sat down and figured
exactly the set of actions that do it. I just put up with it.
Just out of curiosity, does M$Word do the same thing?
Jim Hartley
If you just scroll wheel down, the active cursor doesn't move, and, as
Jim says, selecting an action will return you to where the active cursor
is (acitve cursor is the little vertical flashing line, also known as
text insertion point).
This behaviour is the same in MS Word (or any application that has an
active cursor).
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Klaas Visser
Using OpenOffice.org 2.3
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