By the way, it also works in MS Excel, but so far I didn't found any other program that supports this feature.
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I don't know which OS version this first appeared in, but I've never read about it before and just found this out while playing in 10.2. If you use a mouse with a scroll wheel, press shift while scrolling in a Finder window. The content will scroll to the left and right while pressing shift and using the wheel! This is very useful in column view!
By the way, it also works in MS Excel, but so far I didn't found any other program that supports this feature.
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OMG
oh NICE, this is the best hint i've heard here in a LONG time.... very handy!
nope
not in 10.1.5
USB Overdrive
If you have USB Overdrive, you can make the setting for moving the scroll wheel, and moving the scroll wheel while its held down different. Maybe you could make the moving the wheel while its pressed down perform the 'shift key' modifier along with the scroll action. Then you could just press and scroll to go sideways :)
USB Overdrive doesn't work for me
The "clicked wheel" settings in USBOverdrive do not work for me. When I press the wheel and scroll, it gets interpreted as a middle click, and when I release the button/wheel, it then scrolls up or down afterwards.
It works in some file dialogs !
It seems that it works only in some file dialogs. The mozilla save dialog worked and that's pretty cool since a browser is handles the most save dialogs on my system ;-)
It seems that it works in other UI elements also !
Try to shift-scroll in the Desktop preference pane ! Now you can scroll your way thru your wallpapers.
Wa HOOO!
OOOHHH!!! I have been waiting so long to find this trick!! Thank you!!
I like it!
I've been waitin' fer this fer a long time also! If it worked in iTunes, I'd be havin' a joyride! :D
iTunes !
Well, when you shift-scroll in iTunes (and other notworking apps) the scrolling stops so it seems it's just a matter of implementing what to do with shift-scroll instead of doing "nothing". Let's hope some updates enable this systemwide.
I like it!
One thing I noticed, w/ iTunes 3 at least, is that when it's "minimized" to only the essential controls, you can click on any of the controls from within any other application, and not make iTunes come to the foreground. Pretty cool!
Also for inactive windows...
Also in the Finder, you can use the scroll wheel to even scroll up and down in columns of windows that aren't even the active window. I know IE has supported that for quite a while, and I've found it really useful. It's nice when you have 5 or 6 windows open, spread over two monitors. I can find exactly what I'm looking for--that URL or name/location, etc.-- all without leaving the current window I'm in. Hold down Command and then click on the titlebar of the windows that are in the background and you can move them around without making them active. Then once you've dug down to the window you want, you can hover over it and use the scroll wheel to scroll up and down within the window w/o making it active. This works in IE and the Finder--I just tried it in Terminal w/ several windows, and the scroll wheel held over an inactive window wouldn't work. Maybe it only works in Carbon apps? |
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