Re: scrolling, and losing keyboard input

Hi,

The Amaya behavior is now to scroll one page up or one page down.


Le lundi 17 mars 2008 à 10:39 -0500, Arlo Leach a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> > Hum, normally clicking on a position in the scrollbar skip to the position in
> > the document . As Amaya doesn't have the whole document formatted (often too
> > big), it re-formats the requested part. But often the position is not exactly
> > the same and it seems inconsistent.
> > We could limit the move to one screen up or down if you think it's the habit
> > on MacOS
> 
> The option to jump to the point where I clicked, or jump one screen at a
> time, is set in the system preferences, and mine is set to jump one screen
> at a time, which I believe is the traditional Mac behavior. I can see that
> Amaya is trying to jump one screen at a time, but sometimes it doesn't move
> at all, sometimes it jumps more than a screen, and sometimes the document
> goes blank until I click in the document.
> 
> It does look like this mainly happens with very long documents. I'm testing
> a couple small documents now and the scrolling seems fine, but when I open a
> long document and cut and paste sections around, the scrolling degrades.
> 
> I've tried using the page up and page down keys as an alternative to
> clicking in the scroll bar. In this case the scrolling works well for the
> first few pages, then eventually the document display will break up, and
> I'll have to click in the document to redraw the display and see where I am.
> I uploaded a screen shot of this issue here:
> 
> http://www.arlomedia.com/tests/amaya_scrolling.png
> 
> I blacked out my client name, but you'll see that a part of the document is
> repeated and a part is cut off in the display.
> 
> > Perhaps that occurs after a specific operation. If you have a scenario that
> > shows the bug, we'll be happy to fix the problem.
> > For the moment we're not able to reproduce it. We continue to investigate.
> 
> I've been observing carefully, but I can't pinpoint this to any action that
> triggers it. I think it has something to do with setting attributes and
> possibly with entering an attribute value and pressing Return instead of
> clicking the green checkmark icon, but that doesn't happen every time. It
> might also be related to my long document. I'll see if I notice it on
> shorter documents.
> 
> > Esc is sometimes kept by the window manager.
> 
> What I meant was that I can use Esc and F2 interchangeably until the
> keyboard input stops, then I can use F2 but not Esc. The point is that some
> keys continue to work, but most keys like all the alphanumeric keys do not.
> 
> Thanks for looking into this, and I'll post again if I can pinpoint the
> problem.
> 
> -Arlo
> 
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Received on Friday, 11 April 2008 09:47:53 UTC