That 'elevator shaft area' (love that, thanks Mike S) is supposed to move a 'page' at a time (i.e. a window full)...
In VNC's case, this should be the same... e.g. if you adjust a full screen worth to a quarter size so the window contains the top left quarter of the remote desktop, a single click in the 'elevator shaft area/not thumbscroller region' under the scroll bar should scroll a whole page, so you'd see the bottom quarter of the remote desktop. Same goes for horizontal (turbolift shaft area hehehe) - clicking to the right of the scroll bar should move a windowfull at a time. Hope this helps... It is something I always do, a bit like the scroll wheel on a mouse, it's quicker to move around than dragging scroll bars when you want to move a page/window full at a time, so when VNC moves a little bit at a time, it makes it tedious :) Something that could be altered? Regards, Keith. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Reeder Sent: 30 June 2005 13:49 To: [email protected] Subject: re: Real VNC scroll bar behaviour Keith I assume you are running vncviewer under M$Windows as you dot say you are using Java viewer and Iexplorer is rarely used elsewhere. Note that under M$Windows scrolling, the "thumb-bar" scrolls up to the point at which the click&hold-down has occurred and then stops. For click and release it seems to approximate to the appropriate dimension of the viewing area being scrolled (i.e. height or width). To me, a VNC (non-browser/Java) window appears to behave like all other M$Windows so maybe I'm missing some subtlety there and anyway, do not have TightVNC to check against. Whichever way this discussion pans out (unintentional pun) regarding the "normal" operation, I thank you for raising the issue as for 2 decades I've scrolled bars and nudged arrow heads in various scrolling windows and currently never (conciously) thought to perform a controlled click in that "[not thumbscroller]" region. Maybe I used to :-{. Now I can enthuse/bore/impress people with a new "did you realise that..." conversation as well as my customary "use the {[shift/]tab key | space-bar} rather than moving the mouse" (or vice versa as appropriate) gambits. Scrolling wide and/or tall windows quickly using this feature is something I am now (again?) using whenever possible. cheers, Mark p.s. I look forward to [re-?]discovering the name of the "[not thumbscroller]" region as I feel sure I used to know but have forgotten! _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
