Hello, Vince
I can also confirm what you mention at least in word 97. Have you filled
out a bug report for this version yet?
Thanks
Tony
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From: Vince Tomassetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jfw list serve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 5:33 PM
Subject: RC2 still sluggish when scrolling and selecting
>
> I am a little concerned about the proportion of RC feedback relating to
> e-mail and internet access as compared to feedback on other productivity
> software. I am afraid of HJ releasing this RC version as is based on the
> reports that all is well with Eudora, IE5, etc.
>
> What about Word, Excel, Access, etc? You know the applications that so
many
> of us need to access at work...
>
> In my opinion this release is not near ready yet. Yes it is excelent for
> browsing the net and sending e-mail. However, I am finding a few critical
> situations in my day-to-day access to mainstreem applications that are
> problematic with RC2.which posed no problems with JFW 3.30.26. It would
be
> unfortunate for HJ to release a version that is in some respects inferior
to
> its predecessors.
>
> Here are a few situations that I would like to mention. I am interested in
> knowing weather they are specific to my system or if they occur on other
> systems.
>
> 1) In documents or long lists when I press up or down arrow rapidly the
> scrolling continues for several seconds after depressing the arrow keys.
I
> set JFW to "key Repeat" mode so I can quickly scroll through a document
> until I get to the approximate location in the document. I have enough
> vision to see the blocks of text scrolling on the screen and can tell when
I
> am near the part of the document that I am interested in. With earlier
> versions of JFW this worked nicely. I would just hold down the down arrow
> and let the document scroll. When I let go of the down arrow the document
> stopped scrolling immediately. Now with 3.22.31, 3.31.31, and 3.31.35 the
> document keeps scrolling for several seconds after letting go of the arrow
> key. I can replicate this behaviour in at least Word97, Excel97, WordPad,
> HJPad, and long list views.
>
> 2). When selecting text I get a similar delay in response to actual
> selection on the screen as compared to my keystrokes. This problem occurs
> to some degree in the above programs but is especially problematic in
> Excel97. In Excel, when I am selecting a large range of cells, 5 or more
> columns wide, there is a significant delay in the actual selection of
cells
> on the screen as compared to the actual keystrokes. This makes it
extremely
> inefficient to select ranges of cells that contain non contiguous data.
For
> example, I first select along the first row of my desired selection range.
> Lets say I select 6 cells along that row by holding down the shift key and
> pressing left arrow 5 times. So far so good. However, when I begin
> pressing the down arrow to select more rows in my range there is a
> significant delay in the screen and speech response.
>
> 3). In several dialog boxes in Office 97 programs JFW is not recognizing
> some controls. For example in the Find and Replace dialog box if you
choose
> "More..} to display the extra options and you tab to theFormats or Special
> buttons JFW says "MSO Generic Container" instead of the buttons name.
>
> I imagine that the sluggish response in items 1 and 2 are likely due to
JFW
> attempting to monitor several things as each keystroke is pressed.
However,
> this sluggishness is sacrificing the basic use of the applications for
extra
> (welcomed) monitoring of the workspace, i.e. detecting tables etc. I
> submitted a bug report with the first beta outlining the sluggishness in
the
> genral navigation among cels in Excel. Thankfully, HJ rectified that
> problem and now navigating cells in Excel is very snappy. I hope that a
> similar fix is applied in this case...
>
>
> BTW system details
> ThinkPad 390 with 96 MB RAM
> Neomajic Media AV 256 video card
> Behaviour occurs in 256, 16bit, and 24bit true color display settings
> Color scheme is Windows Standard (not large or extra large)
> Behaviour occurs with Eloquence or DecExpress DTE drivers
>
> Sorry for the long post.
>
> Kindest Regards,
> Vince.
>
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