smooth scrolling

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sat Jan 11 22:16:49 EST 2014


On 1/11/14, 2:41 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
> I've just figured out what's bothered me most about Livecode fields and why
> they act different than native fields (at least on the mac).
>
> They are not very 'magic mouse' friendly - and any vertical scrolling type
> gestures on it get translated into 'rough scrolling' moves ( jumps line by
> line as opposed to pixels ) everywhere, and at the same time the horizontal
> scrolling is totally free.
>
> As a result there is a lot of unintended text movement - the Magic Mouse is
> VERY sensitive. And when a small movement mistake is made, the attention to
> the current line is totally destroyed when the viewport moves wildly about
> the screen.
>
> This drives me nuts.

So that's the reason. It makes me crazy and it happens all the time. The 
script goes zooming off somewhere and it happens so fast I'm not even 
sure whether to scroll up or down to get back where I was.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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