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From: gourdol@imag.imag.fr (Gourdol Arnaud)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Philosophy of Scroll Bars
Message-ID: <16864@imag.imag.fr>
Date: 7 Jan 91 12:35:25 GMT
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Reply-To: gourdol@imag.fr (Gourdol Arnaud)
Organization: IMAG Institute, University of Grenoble, France
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Hi,

Here are according to me the behavior to follow :
1) When the scroll bar is set to the bottom, the last paragraph of
   the document should appear at the bottom of the window
2) When the user wants to add some text to the end of this last paragraph
   the window should scroll so that the new text keeps visible.
   This feature, known as auto-scrolling, is implemented even by
   Microsoft.
3) When the window is resized, if the last paragraph was at the bottom of
   the window, it should remain at the bottom of the window (thus 
   some portions of the text above are revealed).
   If the last paragraph was not visible, the portion of the text below
   should appear.
4) When there is a BAD THING or NOT STANDARD or VERY UGLY to do, 
   please follow Microsoft. If you want to do really Macintosh
   programs, please follow MacWrite 4.6, MacPaint 1 and 2, and MacDraw 1.9.5
   and II. Microsoft programs are not good examples, neither is
   HyperCard.

Arnaud.