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From: ra_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Scrolling problem with MPW 3.0
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Date: 24 Apr 89 20:18:08 GMT
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In article <39008@bbn.COM>, levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) writes...
 
>In article <2864@tank.uchicago.edu> ra_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
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>|Has anyone else had this problem with MPW 3.0: when scrolling through either a
>|document or the worksheet by using the "pageDown" area, the thumb stops some
>|ways from the bottom and further clicking in the page down area doesn't have
>|any effect.  Grabbing the thumb and pushing the down arrow work fine.
> 
>I would call this not a bug but a 'feature'. :-)
> 
>Scrolling via the page down area or arrow stops when the bottom of the
>file is in the window.  You can get the bottom higher with the thumb,
>but I suppose the idea is that if you know where the bottom is you can
>still see a lot of the rest of the file.



Thanks!  It's good to know it's not something weird at my end.

Still, it seems a bit against the guidelines, to "disable" the page down area
or the scroll bar.  Wouldn't a better way be to just make it so that when the
last line of text of your file comes into view, the thumb hits the bottom of
the scroll bar?

I ain't gonna sweat about it though. :->

Robert
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