Jun 25, '02 01:07:02AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
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Option drag allows precise scrolling in Cooca apps
Jun 25, '02 01:07:02AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
If you option-drag the scroll box in a scroll bar in a Cocoa application, the view will be scrolled exactly as far as you moved the mouse (as opposed to the usual behavior, where the scroll box is moved as far as the mouse and the view is moved much further). Now you can have completely smooth or pixel-at-a-time scrolling...
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Huh?
I don't notice any difference in OmniWeb 4.1
Re: Huh?
Me neither. Think I'll go have those few beers now. :-)
Huh?
I haven't tried this in OmniWeb, so I can't vouch for it, but this trick does seem to work in other Cocoa apps (Terminal.app and Adium.app work for me). Unless there is a lot of material to scroll though, holding down option won't make a noticiable difference.
TERMINAL IS CARBON!!!!
DO I NEED TO SAY MORE?
TERMINAL IS CARBON!!!!
Yes! Say more! Because you're wrong...
then why...
Then why doesn't it behave as cocoa app?It doesn't allow using "Services" [highlight a URL in the Terminal and use the OmniWeb service to open it; doesn't work].Cocoa applications you can identify by command+clicking on them. [Search this Forum, there was a post about it.] Terminal.app doesn't behave as cocoa.Open two windows of the Terminal.app, command+click on the scroll bar of the window in the background. It Terminal would be cocoa, the Terminal window that is in the background SHOULD NOT get the focus. However, it does... hence, not cocoa. I guess.Prove me wrong.
then why...
Humm... when I open a Terminal windows, type 'ls' a couple of times, then open another one, hold down command and try to scroll in the window behind, the scroll bars are fully functional and it does not get focus.
look like you're right
funny, I just tried it before today, before ever reading this post: AND IT DIDN'T WORK! Tried again and know it worked. Maybe I wasn't careful and pushed the option key instead. Silly me! :)
System Preference?
Is there something about this hint I'm missing? The "General" page of the System Preferences has a pair of radio buttons to choose what happens when you click in the scroll bars, eg:
So close but yet soooo far
just try click and hold with option and move it SLOW!! now try without option. See a difference? If not, go have a few beers you will see a difference.
Now I can see it!
Wow. That's pretty subtle.
OPITION+CLICK on
Notice that at least in OmniWeb.app if you option+click on the "arrow" of the scroll bar, it jumps, i.e., it functions as PAGE-DOWN
OPITION+CLICK on
And I thought this was an OmniWeb-only feature - this is great!
Works for me
The effect is somewhat subtle. but works. Option drag the scroll handle.
Group reply
Ok, several things. Terminal.app acts like a Cocoa app, I believe it is one. The cmd-click scrollbar trick works in it.
Option-drag allows precise scrolling in Cocoa apps
(I tried to submit my version of this hint this week because my first few searches failed to find this one. I should have searched harder.)
To clarify the confusion here, 2½ years later: Note the difference between Option-click on an empty area of the scroll bar ("scroll to here") vs. Option-drag on the scroll thumb itself. With the latter, dragging scrolls the content proportionally with mouse movement. The original hint calls it a "scroll box"; wfolta said "scroll handle" … I think developers call it a (proportional) scroll thumb. |
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