Re: [OT] We should have our own competition

2017-06-16 Thread Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
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 pag

Re: [OT] We should have our own competition

2017-06-16 Thread Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode
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

Re: [OT] We should have our own competition

2017-06-16 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
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 w

Re: [OT] We should have our own competition

2017-06-15 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
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

Re: [OT] We should have our own competition

2017-06-15 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
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

[OT] We should have our own competition

2017-06-15 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
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-