[squeak-dev] Impossible to grab the scroll bar in the Transcript if...

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Thu Mar 24 18:34:47 UTC 2016


On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:23 AM, karl ramberg <karlramberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> So the size of the slider is so small that you can not grab it because the
> cursor changes to rescale the window ?
>

Yes.


> Should the minimum size of slider be adjusted so we don run into this
> issue?
>

IMO, no.  The border of the window is more than large enough for grabbing.
IMO, the area for it should not be expanded so much as to occlude the
scroll bar slider.


>
> Best,
> Karl
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 6:25 PM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
> wrote:
>
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>> > On 24.03.2016, at 18:16, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >> On 24-03-2016, at 5:15 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>
>> wrote:
>> >> [snip]
>> >> As Tim wrote, this appears to be a general Mac problem. The
>> lower-right corner of any resizable Mac window can’t be used (in any app,
>> so not squeak-specific).
>> >>
>> >> Vertical mouse scrolling works though (but I noticed that horizontal
>> mouse scrolling selects text instead, that is weird).
>> >
>> > Actually I’m both right and wrong because Eliot’s problem is within the
>> Transcript window even if it is not at the bottom-right of the total Squeak
>> window.
>> >
>> > In a release 50.-15113 image you can see this fairly easily in the
>> ‘Release Notes’ window;
>> > a) scroll to the bottom
>> > b) move cursor to very near the bottom of the window and 15-20mm left
>> of the right edge
>> > c) slowly move cursor rightwards.
>> >
>> > Note how it changes to the window resize corner cursor way too early,
>> about when the right edge of the cursor Form gets to the left edge of the
>> scrollbar. Repeating with the cursor a bit higher up shows that the cursor
>> would then change to the window resize edge cursor just as the left edge of
>> the cursor Form touches the left edge of the window frame.
>> >
>> > Actually I see you don’t even need to scroll the text downwards. Just
>> do b & c above.
>>
>>
>> Oh, I see. Yes, halo-click there and you see the extra “grip” morph ...
>>
>> - Bert -
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best, Eliot
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