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From: klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Is there a window patch for TOS 1.4
Keywords: TOS 1.4, bug, window
Message-ID: <1990Sep5.154351@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 5 Sep 90 13:43:51 GMT
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In article <1491@unicorn.WWU.EDU>, n8742883@unicorn.WWU.EDU (Perry
Pederson) writes:
|> 	In TOS 1.0, if I cliked the shadowed area to the side of a
|> window's slide bar, the window would "jump" one windowfull of
|> text/graphics/whatever in the proper direction.  With TOS 1.4, I have
|> noticed that in two of my programs (EMPIRE and ST-TALK Pro), clicking
|> the grey area on window's bar sends signals to the program that the
|> grey area has been clicked TWICE and overshoots the area which I want
|> to view.  If I position the slider manually (click-drag-release) the
|> bar (and the windo info) adjust to the correct place.  Is there a fix
|> for this window problem?

You should consider this a feature rather than a bug. Slider events (or how
else they might be called) are sent as long as the mouse button is pressed
while the pointer is in the grey area. This makes it possible to quickly
scroll through a window.

However, you are still right: It is extremly difficult to issue exactly
*one* slider event. There really should be a (configurable) delay between
the first and following slider events! It should be like with the auto
repeat function of the keyboard: If you hold your finger on a character key
there is a delay between the first keystroke and subsequent auto repeated
ones.

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