479765 - Fix the Scroll-Bar mechanism

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Skywriter Graveyard :: Editor, defect, P2)

Description

[Dany Zatuchna]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Build Identifier: 7f876ef36055

Right now, the scrollbar isn't working properly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a large enough file (so that scrolling would have a practical meaning, say > 100 lines)
2. Using the moust, click the arrow on the vertical scrollbar and hold it.
3. Release the mouse button.
Actual Results:  
While the mouse is pressed over the arrow, the editor does not respond.
On releasing the mouse button, the editor scrolls an entire page (once!) in the direction of the arrow.

Expected Results:  
While the mouse is pressed over the arrow, the editor should scroll "smoothly" in the desired direction.

Comment 1

[Dany Zatuchna]

Currently I'm working on the fix, and I already have something. I just don't know how to assign the bug to myself, if anyone can help, I'd appreciate it very much.

Comment 2

[Dany Zatuchna]

Attachment: Add continuous scroll capability to the editor scrollbar

The patch compensates the fact that when clicking a mouse button, only one "mousedown" event is fired.

What happens now, is that when clicking (and holding) inside the scrollbar but not in the handle, the handle scrolls smoothly towards the mouse pointer, meaning that even if the mouse is moved (while holding the button down, of course), the scroll handle will follow the mouse.

Comment 3

[Dion Almaer]

Dany,

This is fantastic! I will get the patch looked at and we can get it in!

Really appreciate you doing this.

Cheers,

Dion

Comment 4

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This is a mass migration from Mozilla Labs :: Bespin to Bespin :: Editor.

Comment 5

[Ben Galbraith]

I don't understand this issue; Bespin has continuously scrolled for as long as I can recall...