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In article <1464@sragwa.sra.co.jp>, erik@sravd (Erik M. van der Poel) writes:
>In article <247@uucs1.UUCP> gaf@uucs1.UUCP () writes:
>
>|Gee, my applications will be very surprised to hear this.  They still think
>|that clicking on the space above or below the elevator moves the text forward
>|or backward exactly one page, where a page is however many lines of text the
>|box currently holds.
>
>Well, the fact that I didn't know about this just goes to show how
>non-intuitive Motif's scrollbar is. :-(

I don't think this is a fair comment, because unless I misunderstand,
OpenLook has the exact same model for paging forward/backward pages.
So does the Mac.

An example of a non-intutive scrollbar was the one on SunView, which
used all three mouse buttons, and a button modified with a shift key
to move back a page.


To be honest, I am impressed with the OpenLook scrollbar.
Look at all of the operations it supports with a single click:

	Go to beginning
	Go to end
	Move up/down one "line"
		May be repeated without moving the mouse
		Button may be held down to scroll.
	Move up/down one "page"
		May be immediately repeated without moving the mouse
		Button may be held down to scroll by pages

	Can drag box to "absolute" location.


Also, IMHO, all of these operations are intuitive, and only require the
mouse selector button.

The mouse select button is also used to split the object into two
or more views. This is done by dragging the top (or bottom) anchor
towards the middle of the scrollbar.
Considering how often I want to look at a history log and type
something new in, or how often I split a buffer in GNUemacs, it's a
feature I miss in other implementations.

OpenLook also suppports pop-up menus in the scrollbar region, which
can be used to handle more advanced methods of accessing views.

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