Hi all,
On 11-Mar-00, Nabil Shahid spoke thus:
> On 10-Mar-00, you wrote:
>> Hi Vaporware people (esp. Olli),
>>
>> I have a suggestion for the next version of Voyager - when scrolling down a website
>a 'page' at a time (i.e. clicking in the dark section of the scrollbar) the newly
>displayed 'page' should start slightly above the bottom of the previous 'page.' Hmm,
>that doesn't sound too easy to understand. Let me explain - the problem I'm having is
>that when displaying a page sometimes the last line of text is cut in half - i.e. I
>can only see the top half of the text. When I scroll down a page what _should_ happen
>is Voyager should display the whole of the line that was cut in half as the first
>line of text on the new 'page'. Instead it simply displays the bottom half of the
>text, requiring that I very often have to scroll back up a line after scrolling down
>a 'page.'
>>
>> I hope you can understand this problem - I wouldn't think it would be particularly
>difficult to fix either.
>>
>> Bye,
> John, you are both right and wrong.
> Voyager already does what you want, just not the way you are doing it :-(
> As you say, when clicking with the mouse in the scrollbar, you can miss the other
>half of the last line from the previous page. But... if you use the PageUp and
>PageDown keys (numbers 9 and 3 on the numeric keypad) the line will be displayed
>almost fully. What I mean is: previously, if the last line of a page was cut in half
>and you clicked with the mouse, it would scroll so that only a tiny bit of that line
>appeared on the next page. Doing it with the keys would show almost all of that line
>again when you get to the next page. Hope this is what you want!
Yep, this is a fairly good alternative. It has now been pointed out to me that the
problem will be a MUI problem rather than a Voyager one, which I guess rather
complicates things.
In fact, better keys to use than PgUp and PgDn I have just found are shift-up and
shift-down. This way you can toggle easily between reading a line at a time and a page
at a time. And yes, this, unlike when using the mouse, also has the effect I am after.
*snip*
Thanks for the ideas :)
Regards,
--
John Gillanders
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