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Article #494Re: Dream OS
From: Hotel California
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 06:12
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 1995 06:12
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In article <DCpowL.n7M@wombat.hanse.de>, root@wombat.hanse.de (Bernd "Bernie" Meyer) wrote: > But maybe we should put away with "dragging" all along and go with the > method UPS implements: Click somewhere. then move the mouse away a bit. The > thing will scroll that way, the faster the further you moved. No need to > move the mouse anymore until you are where you want to go. > It takes some getting used to (a lot, actually), but it is kind of nifty. I > can't decide which one I prefer (conveniently, UPS allows the other method > as well, with another mouse button. It just ignores point a from the above > list). The Mac has been doing that as long as I can remember. It is a standard part of the interface. You can do it teh UPS way or the scroll bar way. Besides with proportional scroll bars (ick!) the shorter the document, the less area in the scroll bar that doesn't have the scroll box to click on in order to move up exactly one page. -- Hotel California hotelca@cris.com
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!warp.cris.com!NewsWatcher!user From: hotelca@cris.com (Hotel California) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy Subject: Re: Dream OS Date: 4 Aug 1995 06:12:26 GMT Organization: Concentric Internet Services Message-ID: <hotelca-0408950221040001@192.0.2.1> References: <3uhptl$1jdt@thebes.waikato.ac.nz>,<3v6kj3$q1l@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <DCCzBA.Lu8@blaze.trentu.ca> <3vjlo6$kpo@uno.canit.se> <DCpowL.n7M@wombat.hanse.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: crc1-fddi.cris.com