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From: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: scrolling speed on faster CPU's
Message-ID: <31613@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 14 Apr 90 20:13:55 GMT
References: <1990Apr06.172601.22284@csuchico.edu>
Reply-To: thecloud@dhw68k.cts.com (Ken McLeod)
Organization: Wolfskill & Dowling residence; Anaheim, CA (USA)
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In article <1990Apr06.172601.22284@csuchico.edu> robin@csuchico.edu (Robin Goldstone) writes:
>I remember reading somewhere that a new version of the Mac system software
>would take care of the problem of overly-fast scrolling that occurs with
>the faster CPU's.  Was this supposed to be taken care of in 6.0.5 or 7.0?
>I downloaded 6.0.5 from apple but have not installed it due to numerous
>bug stories I have been reading.  But I really would like that scroll 
>fix for my IIcx.  Anyone know what I'm talking about?

 According to the System 6.0.5 Change History, fixes for the scroll speed
"problem" have been implemented in the List Manager, Standard File Package,
and the Control Manager. However, as far as I can tell, the timing is not
user-configurable.

 You can get this functionality without having to install 6.0.5, though...
the freeware "Scroll Limit" INIT/cdev allows you to customize the scroll
speed on any Mac running 4.1 or greater. It should be available from the
info-mac archives, etc. (and comp.binaries.mac "real soon now" :-). The
current version of Scroll Limit is 1.2.

-ken



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