Never heard of the "throw" or a "two-way icon"
BUT
I have a laptop with a touchpad and there is a section
on the right that has an up arrow. Then below it small lines
"cut" into the pad down the site. Then a down arrow.
that is my scroll system instead of using a wheel on a mouse.
I have not bought a mouse for the laptop, yet. Maybe later.
From: "Robert Goulding" have laptop w/touchpad, don't understand "throw".
right hand side of touchpad just haas cursor like anywhere else. I have a
tiny wheel mouse I bought and can try but to make the touchpad work would
be the trick. thank you.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold Fuchs"
On 03/04/2008, Harold Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 03/04/2008 17:14, Robert Goulding wrote:
> hands off auto-scroll, so Ican read my e-books without having to
> advance
> by clicking Sorry I wasn't clearer
>
Hmmm. On my Windows XP Pro tower system with OOo 2.3 auto-scroll works
just like with any other program; press the mouse wheel to bring up the
symbol of the "2-way icon"* and then move the cursor down a bit.
Auto-scrolling starts. The further the cursor is below the 2-way icon
the
faster the scroll. Substitute "up" and "above" for "down" and "below" to
auto-scroll in the opposite direction. Click the left mouse button to
stop
the scroll; move the cursor up/down to change the speed of the scroll.
I can't achieve this effect on my laptop because the touch pad doesn't
support it [or I haven't found out how :-( ]
* I don't know what the "2-way icon" is called officially. What I mean
is
a circle with a dot in the middle; above the dot is an upward-pointing
arrowhead and below it is a downward-pointing arrowhead.
What happens when you press the mouse wheel?
<snip>
Apologies for replying to my own post but I just remembered how to
auto-scroll on a [properly configured] touchpad: "throw" pressure down
the
extreme right edge of the pad with a finger that's touching both the pad
and
the surrounding frame; the harder you throw the faster the auto-scroll.
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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