On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 07:12:04PM +0100, florent pitoun wrote: > > If drawing the scrollbar correctly is the issue then I > > suggest adding a switch that enables you to view a page in > > its entirety under the condition that you can't view the > > scrollbar. (I prefer not having the scrollbar because it > > leaves more room for the text, but that's just my preference.) > > I have the same opinion. I don't really care about the scroll bar.
Well, the viewer definatly care's about the scroll bar. When its displayed or not, it still plays an integral role in the simple act of scrolling the text up or down. Mathmatically it's used to help different aspects of the viewer decide 'Where are we?' 'How far is it to the bottom?' and 'What text should be displayed right here?' If anything it's more like a ruler. Right now the scale of that ruler is determined as soon as the little wait icon disappears, 1:x (x representing the total number of screens of text that are queued to be displayed for that page) We might be able to set that scale to 1:1 while drawing the very first screen. Then, as the user read's that screen the rest of the page is rendered, as that happens the scale increases from 1:1, 1:2, 1:3... 1:x transparently to the user. The only problem with that method is that as I said earlier, the different aspects of the viewer that depend on the scrollbar might be a little confused on the actual state of what the user sees. Atleast until the point that the page has been completly rendered (1:x) I hope that makes sence atleast :) -- Adam McDaniel Array.org Calgary, AB, Canada _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
