reordering lists

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Tue Feb 26 02:38:01 EST 2002


Martin,

> It seems that a revolution listfield (with "autohilite" "listbehaviour" +
> "click to toggle" checkboxes all true) wants to scroll the hilited line to
> the vertical centre of the field, at all times, and of course that's
really
> undesirable here, I want it to stay where it was when I clicked it, unless
> I'm actually dragging and the field needs to scroll to bring other lines
> into view, which is what I'm used to in HC, windowscript, and in fact all
> other mac apps that let you 'peel off' a line from a scrolling field.
>
> Sigh... if I anybody knows a way to subvert this "feature"...

I'm glad you brought this up. I ran into the same behavior in attempting to
create a table object. I would sincerely recommend that Rev/MC change this
"feature" so that it only scrolls if the hilite is at the bottom or top of
the field.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/




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