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



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