Re: [OT] We should have our own competition
That's not unique to WoW. In fact, it used to be considered by many to be *the* right way to do mouse/scrollbars. I'm pretty sure it was the default on very early Sun Micro systems, copied from Apollo : left click in scrollbar would 'warp' to the mouse position, right button would scroll 1 page up/down, with a config option to reverse those button choices. The two choices can still be found on some Unix window managers, I think - been a few years since I used anything but Mac). And (in some cases) it was useful e.g. for CAD systems it was not that uncommon to have a good overall feel for where in your large 2-D or 2-1/2D design you wanted to go ... Alex. On 16/06/2017 16:59, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: I would make scrollbars akin to the old World Of Warcraft scrollbars, where when clicking above or below the elevator box, it didn't simply page up or page down, like any normal person expected it to. Oh no, it moved the elevator box to the place where you clicked, which meant you had to guess where the thing you were looking for *might* be, then take your best shot! Of course they did have arrows, but they scrolled something like 1/3 of a line at a click. It took 10 years to fix that. Bob S ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [OT] We should have our own competition
On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Oh no, it moved the elevator box to the place where you clicked, which > meant you had to guess where the thing you were looking for *might* be, > then take your best shot Some years ago, when an SE/30 was still a fairly high-end machine, I managed to break the tip of the picture tube. Not catastrophic, as I had a staggeringly large, 17" display (1 bit, about 2 feet deep, and about 60 lbs, iirc). The catch was that the internal display had been the main display, and got the menus . . . I had to go fishing with the mouse to bring up the control panel by heading for upper left, and guessing my pulldown . . . iirc, I knew either where the panel had last been, or a sliver was haning over the two screens, or some such. After a few minutes I actually got it, blindly pulled part onto the big screen, and used the panel to change the primary screen. I never did get the fuse fixed (but it *did * throw me across my office when I reached in to bend the eject tab on the floppy, forgetting for the moment that the high voltage was on the side of a crt, not the disconnected tube socket . . .) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [OT] We should have our own competition
I would make scrollbars akin to the old World Of Warcraft scrollbars, where when clicking above or below the elevator box, it didn't simply page up or page down, like any normal person expected it to. Oh no, it moved the elevator box to the place where you clicked, which meant you had to guess where the thing you were looking for *might* be, then take your best shot! Of course they did have arrows, but they scrolled something like 1/3 of a line at a click. It took 10 years to fix that. Bob S ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [OT] We should have our own competition
On 6/15/17 5:29 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: For our competition I nominate LiveCode's little up-and-down arrows in the property editor for selecting location, where I'm never sure which one increases the number or decreases it. Easy peasy. The up arrow makes the numbers go up so that the object goes down, while the down arrow makes the numbers go down so the object goes up. In short, up is down and down is up -- unless of course it's going horizontal, where up is always right and down is what's left. Like USB cables, it always goes the other way and it only works the second time. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [OT] We should have our own competition
On 06/15/2017 03:17 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Best volume controls ever: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/6/9/15768800/reddit-worst-volume-sliders-ui-design LOL. Reddit is too much of a rabbithole for me to want to get much deeper than the tl;dr article, though. For our competition I nominate LiveCode's little up-and-down arrows in the property editor for selecting location, where I'm never sure which one increases the number or decreases it. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
[OT] We should have our own competition
Best volume controls ever: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/6/9/15768800/reddit-worst-volume-sliders-ui-design -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
