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From: wright@etsuv2.etsu.edu (BRIAN WRIGHT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: Scrolling 2.0 screens without AutoScroll on
Message-ID: <1991Apr21.222012.46279@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>
Date: 22 Apr 91 03:05:24 GMT
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In article caw@miroc.Chi.IL.US (Christopher A. Wichura) writes...
>Anyway, I'm having trouble finding out how to manually scroll the screen.
>If I'm at the top of the screen, I can grab its drag bar and scroll
>anywhere I want with the mouse.  But once I let go, if there's no drag bar,
>I can't seem to get back.  Looking in the 2.0 preferences section, there is
>a thing in IControl about the key to be used in congunction with the mouse
>to scroll the screen.  This sure sounds like what I'm looking for, but no
>amount of coersion seems to make it work.  What's the scoop?  I'm obviously
>missing something here.

Left-Amiga Left-Mouse-Drag drags the screen around.

There is a bad side effect to auto-scroll off.  If you have ToolManager
running that has added lots of tools to your Tools menu, you can't get
to the bottom entries as you cannot scroll to the bottom.  That is unless
you have menu-snap off.  If it's off it won't take you to the top of the
screen whenever click the right-mouse.

>Thanks,
>-=> CAW
> 
>(Looking through the manual, it seems to me the old icons for the window
>gadgets looked a lot nicer than the current stuff.  I think that's been
>said here, already, though...)

I prefer the newer gadget imagery than the old.  The older gadgetry was 
A) Too small and B) Too NeXTish.  The newer gadgets work into the window
better.  The resize gadget with the little lines I liked better than the
current little triangle, though.  

>Christopher A. Wichura                Multitasking.  Just DO it.
>caw@miroc.chi.il.us  (my amiga)                          ...the Amiga way...
>u12401@uicvm.uic.edu (school account)

I do have a comment along the lines of gadgets to anyone who may know.  Are
scalable icons going to make their way into the OS anytime soon?  I mean, 
when you go from 640x400 to 640x200 the gadgets don't always look right.
640x400 gadgets look to long under 640x200 and 640x200 icons look too 
squashed under 640x400.  Is this under consideration to be added?

Brian Wright
wright%etsuvax2@ricevm1.rice.edu