Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!polyslo!jdudeck
From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: Scroll-Bars (Was Re: Multi-button mice)
Keywords: Scroll Bar, Mouse, Pan
Message-ID: <25aeab7b.2384@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 13 Jan 90 04:15:55 GMT
References: <581@cadlab.cadlab.de> <7836@cognos.UUCP>
Reply-To: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
Lines: 20


In article <7836@cognos.UUCP> roberts@cognos.UUCP (Robert Stanley) writes:
>having a single scroll hot-spot per scrollbar and using the left/right
>mouse button to select scroll direction is my least favourite paradigm.

Now I am not a Mac user, I have a PC clone with a 3-button Logitech
mouse.  I have found that by far the easiest scroll bar scheme I have
ever used is in the POINT editor by Logitech.  In this program the scroll bar
is along the screen border, so that you can hit it without having to worry
about going too far (assuming your window that you are scrolling fills the
screen, which it may not...), and then click the left and right buttons to
scroll up and down.  If you point to a specific location on the scroll bar
and press the middle button, it jumps to that relative location in the text.

With this approach there is no dragging of the locator thingy on the scroll
bar.  And as long as you are anywhere on the scroll bar you can scroll by
clicking a mouse button.  I find this extremely easy to use, because I can
do it without aiming.  I strongly detest every other scroll bar I have ever
tried to use, including the Macs that I have tried.


-- 
John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu             -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching 
ESL: 62013975 Tel: 805-545-9549          Tanenbaum's MINIX operating system.