Re: [Openev-discuss] gvviewarea adjustments

[Paul S. <pag...@ma...>]

I have committed my change, please let me know if anyone has problems 
with it.

Cheers,

Paul

Diana Esch-Mosher wrote:
> Ahh, yes this would be a welcome change. I was just about to look into
> this myself!
> 
> Diana
> 
> On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 11:57, Paul Spencer wrote:
> 
>>All,
>>
>>in working on an openev-based app, I have discovered that the horizontal 
>>and vertical adjustments added using a GtkScrolledWindow don't act as I 
>>would have expected.  Specifically, the arrows at the ends of the 
>>adjustments scroll the view to the associated edge of the world extents 
>>(top/bottom/left/right) rather than panning the view by some smaller 
>>increment.
>>
>>Clicking in  the 'page' area of the scrollbar pans the map one screen 
>>dimension in the appropriate direction.  In normal windows terms, these 
>>arrows would scroll by a step increment that is somewhat smaller than 
>>the page size.
>>
>>I would like to know if this is a 'feature' of openev or something that 
>>has been overlooked because no one ever uses it ;)
>>
>>If it is not a feature, I would like to commit a change for a proper 
>>step size that would provide finer panning than the page size.  My 
>>experimentation indicates that 1/4 the page size would be a pretty good 
>>increment, although I could also make this a configurable value (percent 
>>1-100 of page size?).
>>
>>I could also implement it so that an application could set a preference 
>>on how these buttons should work.
>>
>>Comments?
>>
>>Paul

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