[OT] We should have our own competition

[Alex Tweedly]

That's not unique to WoW. In fact, it used to be considered by many to be *the* right way to do mouse/scrollbars.

I'm pretty sure it was the default on very early Sun Micro systems, copied from Apollo : left click in scrollbar would 'warp' to the mouse position, right button would scroll 1 page up/down, with a config option to reverse those button choices. The two choices can still be found on some Unix window managers, I think - been a few years since I used anything but Mac).

And (in some cases) it was useful  e.g. for CAD systems it was not that uncommon to have a good overall feel for where in your large 2-D or 2-1/2D design you wanted to go ...

Alex.

On 16/06/2017 16:59, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
> I would make scrollbars akin to the old World Of Warcraft scrollbars, where when clicking above or below the elevator box, it didn't simply page up or page down, like any normal person expected it to. Oh no, it moved the elevator box to the place where you clicked, which meant you had to guess where the thing you were looking for *might* be, then take your best shot! Of course they did have arrows, but they scrolled something like 1/3 of a line at a click. It took 10 years to fix that.
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