Difficulty to scroll vindow in Script editor

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Difficulty to scroll vindow in Script editor

Post by Mag » Thu Oct 06, 2016 4:49 pm

I'm having difficulty to scroll the window content of the Script editor in macOS (LiveCode 8.1 Indy), it scroll too match with a single swipe and don't follow the scroll when moving the finger over the mouse or trackpad. Is this something that somebody experienced and maybe fix or it's just me? :oops:

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Re: Difficulty to scroll vindow in Script editor

Post by jmburnod » Thu Oct 06, 2016 5:09 pm

Hi Mag,
I tested it with a script > 4000 lines and it scroll fine here (OS X 10.10.3, LC indy 8.1.0)
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Re: Difficulty to scroll vindow in Script editor

Post by Mag » Thu Oct 06, 2016 5:14 pm

Thank you Jean-Marc. Sierra users?

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Re: Difficulty to scroll vindow in Script editor

Post by Mag » Thu Oct 06, 2016 7:32 pm

OK, I think I understand something more about the problem, it seems that is related with the Apple's Magic Mouse, using a a Logitech USB it seems all work better (but not in a very standard way, the scroll at each wheel movement is a bit too much).

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Re: Difficulty to scroll vindow in Script editor

Post by jmburnod » Thu Oct 06, 2016 7:46 pm

Sierra users?
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Re: Difficulty to scroll vindow in Script editor

Post by dunbarx » Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:01 pm

Have you played with the settings in the "Accessibilty" pane? I mean in the mouse and trackpad section, in the "more options" (sheesh), which allows you to set the scroll speed.

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Re: Difficulty to scroll vindow in Script editor

Post by Mag » Fri Oct 07, 2016 12:05 am

dunbarx wrote:Have you played with the settings in the "Accessibilty" pane? I mean in the mouse and trackpad section, in the "more options" (sheesh), which allows you to set the scroll speed.

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Hi Craig, thank you for the tip, to tell the true, with other apps, the scroll works fine. The only problem I have noticed is with LiveCode 8.1 and 8.1.1 (beta 1).

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Re: Difficulty to scroll vindow in Script editor

Post by jacque » Fri Oct 07, 2016 4:31 pm

I also use a magic mouse and it is far too sensitive. Even a short touch can cause the editor to scroll wildly. This also came up on the mailing list a while ago.
There isn't a good fix.

There is an OS extension called MagicPrefs that lets you customize many things about the Magic Mouse. I use it to reduce the swipe area so that an accidental touch does not cause scrolling. You might be able to find some settings that will help, it can control speed as well.

http://magicprefs.com
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Re: Difficulty to scroll vindow in Script editor

Post by Mag » Sun Oct 09, 2016 3:10 pm

Hi Jacque, Ok, I installed MagicPrefs thank you for the advice.

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After some test I switched back to Logitech mouse. I think that LiveCode don't use the native macOS scrolling, it seemt to me that it don't follow continuously the scroll but instead it just performs repeatedly some discrete scrolling portions, so until something changes in the LC engine we don't have a correct scroll. :oops:

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