On 03/04/2008 21:41, Robert Goulding wrote:
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.
1. Touch Pad
Using the touch pad, put a finger at the extreme right edge of the pad,
near the top, so that it is touching the pad *and* its surround. Press.
Keep pressing and move the finger steadily down the edge of the pad. The
current window should scroll down. Upwards works too. That was normal
scroll.
For auto-scroll, put the finger in the same place, press and, while
pressing *rapidly* move the finger down the edge of the pad and remove
it when it nears the bottom of the pad. That *should* cause auto-scroll
and its what I meant by "throw"- the *rapid* movement of your finger as
if you were trying to flick something off the pad towards you. If this
does not work for you then either I haven't explained myself well enough
or your touch pad is not configured correctly. As far as I know this
technique works on all modern(ish) laptops. I'm talking about Windows
laptops. I'm afraid I can't speak for *nix or Mac.
2. Wheel Mouse
The "two-way icon" is *not* something engraved on the keyboard. Instead
it appears *on the screen* when you press (actually "click" would be a
better word) the wheel of a wheel mouse. It's a circle. About 3/4 inch
in diameter. Inside the circle, at its centre, is a dot. Above the dot,
but still inside the circle, is an up pointing arrow. Below the dot, but
still inside the circle, is a down pointing arrow. When you click the
wheel this icon appears and the cursor is level with the dot. As you
move the cursor vertically away from the dot the screen starts
scrolling. The further away the cursor is from the dot the faster the
scroll. Once scrolling has started you can take your hand off the mouse
and the screen will continue to scroll. To stop it scrolling, click the
left mouse button. To slow down the scroll, move the cursor nearer the
dot. To speed up the scroll, move the cursor further from the dot.
Again, I'm talking about Windows. I don't even know if Mac mice have wheels.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Harold Fuchs"
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Subject: Re: [users] Scrolling
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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