Дон Андре Published on December 17, 2008
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Windows another Argh!?

Wednesday December 17, 2008 at 09:32AM

Has anybody a solution to this problem? It's driving me crazy.

Windows has a "nice" feature to slow you down automatically when you want to work too fast. So that you don't be too productive. An everyday task that you do on with the graphical user interface is scrolling. In Windows you first select the scrollable control and then turn the mouse wheel to scroll up or down. When you're fast enough however Windows will reset the scroll position. If you click into the control and immediately scroll so that the selected element disappears from the current list, the view is reset to include the just selected element.

You can try it like this: Open the task manager and there the processes tab and resize it so that you have to scroll. Sort the processes by name. Make sure you have no processes quitting or starting in the meantime, so that the content of the list stays the same. Now select the top most element (or the 2nd to top if the top is already selected) and immediately after you selected it scroll down. Watch how the scroll position is reset to the top most position. But when you click, wait a while, and then scroll down you get the desired result.

ARGH!

(Please no suggestions to turn to Mac/Linux)

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Justus says:
I suggest to turn to Mac/Linux.
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )
Дон Андреpro replies:
argh!
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )
♥/work. says:
nothing gets reset here: scrolling works like it's supposed to be i'd say...what windows version are you using?
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )
Дон Андреpro replies:
I've tested it in XP and Vista on 3 different PCs. Have you followed my description? Honestly I don't think that's what it is supposed to be. When I scroll down, I want to scroll down and not be set back to where I was before.
Posted 11 months ago. ( permalink )

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