iscroll2-users — General Discussion

[iscroll2-users] Another odd thing...

[<ga...@zi...>]

While re-installing 0.25, something unusual popped up in the  
installer, it was trying to connect to the internet according to  
Little Snitch. Installer.app was trying to reach  
ev1s-67-15-16-38.ev1servers.net and Little Snitch caught it and I  
blocked it because I have no idea what it is.

Little Snitch caught this connection attempt when the "This package  
contains a program that determines if the software can be installed.  
Are you sure you want to continue?" dialog popped up. The key here is  
that the connection attempt occurred BEFORE I clicked continue. This  
seems like it might be considered a bit of an invasion of privacy,  
and I have been using Little Snitch for months now and never seen a  
standard .pkg file installed using Installer.app try to phone home.

I compared the files available from various mirrors for 0.25 and  
found they all did this and the MD5s matched.

What's up with spying on users?

-Galen

[iscroll2-users] Sensitivity - Defaults, etc

[<ga...@zi...>]

Hello,

I have been a longtime user of iScroll2 on my 1.33 GHz PowerBook G4.  
I recently had a hard drive failure and while I didn't lose any data,  
I decided it was about time to do a fresh install of the OS while I  
was at it. It has been eons and I have screwed around with a lot of  
things, not to mention I didn't feel like double-triple checking the  
data. (My recovery process merged a recent full backup and select  
updated files... some "new" files contained bad blocks, so it was  
substantially easier to to just re-install the system rather than end  
up with a mixed up version or something.) I did keep my old Library  
and such.

Anyhow, my system got back up and running beautifully, down to the  
every last application and extra, except one item: iScroll2. A quick  
re-download of iScroll2 got it back up and running no problem. But  
all of the sudden, it is INSANELY SENSITIVE! Like, one hundred times  
or more sensitive than before. I believe I was using the default  
settings before even. It is so sensitive (with the defaults) that I  
can't use it, like I move a tiny, tiny bit and I fly through 10,000  
mail mail messages and even the slightly upward movement (even not  
intended) sends me up and down like insanity. Even some tweaking  
(though I didn't spend a lot of time on this) didn't get me anywhere  
near where I was before.

As far as I know, I was running 10.4.7 and iScroll2 and the software  
should be exactly the same as before, except I went from iScroll2  
0.25 to 0.26. (Yes, my version was fairly out of date.) I reverted  
back to 0.25 and... presto, the scrolling is perfect. As an  
experiment, I upgraded to 0.26 (without removing 0.25, in hopes of  
keeping the same defaults) and the scrolling got at least twice as  
sensitive - too sensitive. Suffice to say, I have downgraded to 0.25  
again. Why not, I could spend an hour or two playing with the  
settings and only maybe get the sensitivity back where it was, or I  
can just install a simple .pkg file.

It seems this is a difference in the defaults and possibly the code  
itself. Anybody have any insight into what is going on here?

-Galen