Re: proposal: handle middle/right clicks on arrows of scrollbarsdifferently

[Calum Benson <calum benson ireland sun com>]

John Kodis wrote:

> - Currently, pressing button 1 in the arrow at the bottom of a
>   vertical scrollbar scrolls down.  I'd like to see this extended so
>   that pressing button 2 scrolls up.  This would allow a window to be
>   scrolled up and down without having to move the cursor from one end
>   of the scrollbar to the other.  Similarly for the top, left, and
>   right scrollbar arrows.

Probably rather too late in the day for this now, but an alternative
solution to this would be to have put the up/down and left/right arrow
buttons on the scrollbar control beside each other, rather than at
opposite ends.  This is something the Amiga's always done (although only
for top-level windows, IIRC, not listbox controls)-- and additional
advantage being that the control's behaviour remains  clear just from
looking at it, rather than having to learn some cunning mouse trick...

Cheeri
Calum.


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