Scrolling Smoothly through Large Scripts

[J. Landman Gay]

I suspect the scroll wheel is sending multiple rawKeyDown messages per scroll unless you are able to be very precise when you do it. 


On December 24, 2015 2:17:36 PM CST, Ray <ray at linkit.com> wrote:
>Peter - thanks for the idea.  I've tried it along with a few variations
>
>on it but unfortunately to no avail.  I can see it getting trapped but 
>for some reason my script editor window always jumps about 5 or 6 lines
>
>when I scroll one notch using the mouse wheel.  Any ideas?  I'm 
>experimenting with a script window of about 3000 lines.
>
>On 12/24/2015 1:08 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote:
>> Try this (untested). Put the following into a frontscript. Watch for
>email-induced linebreaks.
>>
>> on rawkeydown n
>>     if not (the name of the selectedfield contains
>"revNewScriptEditor") then pass rawkeydown
>>     if the optionkey is down then pass rawkeydown
>>     --  use optionkey to return to usual scrolling, for scanning
>through long scripts
>>     put the long id of the selectedfield into sFld
>>     put the textheight of sFld into txtHt
>>     put the scroll of sFld into oldScr
>>     switch n
>>        case "65308" -- up
>>           set the scroll of sFld to oldScr + txtHt
>>           break
>>        case "65309" -- down
>>           set the scroll of sFld to oldScr - txtHt
>>           break
>>        default
>>           pass rawkeydown
>>     end switch
>> end rawkeydown
>>
>> -- Peter
>>
>> Peter M. Brigham
>> pmbrig at gmail.com
>> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
>>
>> On Dec 24, 2015, at 11:59 AM, Ray wrote:
>>
>>> Seasons Greetings on Christmas Eve!
>>>
>>> Does anybody know how to scroll just one line per mouse-wheel
>movement through the script editor window?
>>>
>>> I typically view several thousand lines at a time.  Each push of the
>little scroll wheel on my mouse produces an abrupt 'jerk' of 10 or 15
>lines.  It's really hard on the eyes by the end of the day.
>>>
>>> Ideally scrolling would be totally smooth without even jerking one
>line at a time, but one line at a time is better than a random group at
>a time causing me to re-orient myself.
>>>
>>> Many thanks!
>>>
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