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#130 1.7.0 - Using mouse wheel scrolls right, not down
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affects all platforms mac/win/linux/unix
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2025-01-19
2017-05-29
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Having the task overview with GAntt-Chart on the right side opened.
I you are with the mouse in the task overview, and use the mouse button to scroll down, the window content is moved to the left, showing the hidden columns. (Seen in Windows and Linux)
Expected behaviour: The content of the window is moved up when you scroll down
Same here, which looks like an inconsistency issue, because the "Resources" table scrolls vertically with the mouse wheel.
In the Gantt view, the horizontal scroll bar needs to be there underneath the task table (i.e. the colomns need to exceed its horizontal window space) for the horizontal scrolling with the scroll wheel. Otherwise there is no scroll wheel function at all.
Tested with the current projectlibre-1.7.0.zip (running as non-admin user, without installation) on Ubuntu 17.04 Mate, 64-bit.
openjdk version "1.8.0_131"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_131-8u131-b11-2ubuntu1.17.04.3-b11)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.131-b11, mixed mode)
Using 1.7.0 on Windows 7, if you place the mouse pointer on the scroll bar on the right side, it will scroll vertically with the wheel
want to bump it up, on superwide finding the scrollbar is a big issue.
We are banging away and looking to improve both the open source ProjectLibre and the upcoming ProjetLibre Cloud. We work 7 days a week so it is not abandoned but a lot of sleepless nights.
FWIW, one upvote for getting rid of the horizontal scroll. Gets me every time! I'm happy to use the horizontal scoll bar if I want to go sideways.
Another upvote... I'm coming from MS Project, just started using ProjectLibre. I do find the horizontal scroll to be... not helpful. It only slows down my work.
Thanks
You guys have to fix this. It is unusable like this
I see that in the version that I am working, while the issue is not fixed, the PgUp/PgDn functions (Fn+Up arrow or Fn+Down arrow) is working and that saved me from the frustration. Hope this helps others.
There's a long standing PR on github fixing this issue:
https://github.com/claur/ProjectLibre/pull/2
When you scroll on a Gantt chart it does move to the right. If you want to find a task far out in the future you can also use the "Scroll to Task" icon.
If you want to have it scroll the spreadsheet vertically: use Function and dwn or up this scrolls up and down the spreadsheet rows.
its more efficient to have the scroll up and down rather than right and left
please fix it
thanks
Thanks for this amazing software but I agree with the others scroll up and down is more useful and generates a better experience than right and left scroll and go to sideways is really annoying . Maybe right a left can be done using a shortcut.
Thanks
I've just been all over the Windows forums and Microsoft pages trying to find which Windows switch or driver update fixes this, so I am kind of relieved that actually it turns out its Project Libre behaviour by design. But it does need changing soon-ish.
Why is this long-standing "feature" still in place? It's an impediment to the way we learn to scroll up and down pages in most programs, and enough to make me reconsider using MS Project.
Me either! Please change this feature... :|
I am really trying to use this software. BUT the Scrolling issue and how it is handled as a preference of a programmer vis a vis the Millions of potential users, make this software very difficult to get used to.
This project is dead. Do yourself a favour and forget it.
This really simple to fix bug is open since over 5 years now and there are still lots of other bugs.
ProjectLibre is unfortunately so buggy that any attempt to manage your project(s) is wasted time.
Sorry that I can't say anything better :(
Sadly the project owners do keep it closed instead of opening it up to the community :-(
This REALLY needs to be updated. I've got a few projects with 200+ tasks in them, using the scroll bar on the right lacks the resolution needed. You can only use it to get to a rough area, then have to arrow key up and down to find what you are looking for. The gantt chart view left right scroll feature is NICE to have, but if you're managing a project, you NEED to be able to see/work on the tasks. The gantt view is the last step, I don't know why or how anyone uses this as the main focus to get anything done. If you zoom out a little you can see a larger project gantt view entirely eliminating the need to even scroll left/right. Up and down, that is where you run into troubles. task overloading, resource management (people, hardware, workspace etc).