On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 Jacqueline Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 03:18 AM, Ken Ray wrote: > > >> It seems that a revolution listfield (with "autohilite" "listbehaviour" > >> + > >> "click to toggle" checkboxes all true) wants to scroll the hilited line > >> to > >> the vertical centre of the field, at all times, and of course that's > > really > >> undesirable here, I want it to stay where it was when I clicked it, > >> unless > >> I'm actually dragging and the field needs to scroll to bring other lines > >> into view, which is what I'm used to in HC, windowscript, and in fact all > >> other mac apps that let you 'peel off' a line from a scrolling field. > >> > >> Sigh... if I anybody knows a way to subvert this "feature"... > > > > I'm glad you brought this up. I ran into the same behavior in attempting > > to > > create a table object. I would sincerely recommend that Rev/MC change this > > "feature" so that it only scrolls if the hilite is at the bottom or top of > > the field. > > The behavior is in the engine, and Scott Raney and I have had a couple of > conversations about it. I don't know of any other application on any > platform that pops a selected line to the middle the way MC/Rev does. It > is hugely disorienting to the user. The way the Control Browser in MC > bounces around has always made me crazy, and I talked Scott into changing > the script in the 2.4.2 browser to block the behavior -- but it still > remains in the engine and we have to work around it in our scripts. I must be missing something: the engine *never* centers a selection, and the only time it changes the scroll at all is if you select a line with a script that would not otherwise be visible in the field. Now someone might make an argument that having the default be to allow an invisible selection is a feature, but I'd say they have their work cut out for them... Regards, Scott > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ******************************************************** Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution