Enhanced mouse wheel support

pluby · Posted: Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject: Enhanced mouse wheel support

Up until now, due to limitations in Apple's Java, NeoOffice users suffered from the following mouse wheel problems:

- No mouse wheel scrolling in popup menus and lists
- No horizontal mouse wheel scrolling

Well I finally found a way to bypass Java's limitations and handle native mouse wheel events correctly. So, if you use a mouse wheel and either of the above problems has annoyed you, I have a test patch that you can try.

You can test the enhanced mouse wheel support by installing the following test patch:

PowerPC:
http://jane.neooffice.org/test/NeoOffice-2.2.3-Patch-1-Test-3-PowerPC.dmg

Intel:
http://jane.neooffice.org/test/NeoOffice-2.2.3-Patch-1-Test-3-Intel.dmg

Patrick

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4574

You, good sir, are the Mæstro of mæstros! Very Happy

Two-fingered scrolling is one of those things that you don't realize how addicted to it you've become until you hit some place where it doesn't work, and horizontally in Neo has been one of those places (my old PowerBook being another Razz

).

I noticed just one small bug (10.5.2/Intel):

If you position the cursor over one of the combo boxes in the Writer toolbar (e.g. the styles or zoom), scrolling over it scrolls the contents "in-place" when the combo box isn't dropped down to display the child window, whereas native combo boxes (e.g. Network Utility's Whois tab's server combo box) don't.

To be honest, this may not be a new bug, as I'd never tried that before; I did it accidentally as a result of playing with the scrolling in their dropped-down child windows Wink

Smokey

miggs · Agent Joined: Sep 22, 2004 Posts: 13 Location: Canada

I was hoping that your wizardry would enable this feature some day!

Testing the patch on my MacBook Pro using the trackpad the behavior for horizontal scrolling is reversed from the expected behavior. Moving fingers from left to right scrolls from right to left. This is counter to how it behaves in the finder, moving fingers left to right scrolls left to right.

Should I file a bug?

OPENSTEP · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 12:44 am Post subject:

Offhand do you know if the behaviour also reversed with a mouse scrollball? If so we just need to multiply the factor by -1.

ed

jgd · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 3:27 am Post subject:

pluby · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:41 am Post subject:

pluby · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 7:44 am Post subject: Re: Enhanced mouse wheel support

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4574

sardisson · Town Crier Joined: Feb 01, 2004 Posts: 4574

yoxi · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:24 am Post subject:

Curious behaviour, horizontal scrolling in calc with the trackpad on my MBP: say the cursor is in cell A20, then I scroll right a few times until I'm in double-letter territory - and the doc window is still showing rows 1-38.

Then I scroll left again to get back to column A; everything's fine until the last left scroll, at which point the screen jumps down around 10-20 rows so the top rows no longer show in the doc window and I have to scroll up.

Is this because I'm left-handed? Confused

- padmavyuha

pluby · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:46 am Post subject:

yoxi · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:50 am Post subject:

The natives are restless...

jgd · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:55 am Post subject: Re: Enhanced mouse wheel support

jgd · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:17 am Post subject:

On my quite old PowerBook I've installed (ages ago Wink

) SideTrack, a little program which allows scrolling and rigth-clicking with the trackpad. It works fine with Test 4. Very Happy

Jacqueline

glawrie · Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:37 pm Post subject:

+1 Works (scrolling in menus) on Logitech Cordless Optical Trackman running on 10.5.2 on PPC (Apple OS X not Logitech drivers).