Re: Scroll wheel speed

On 20 Jan, Richard Ashbery wrote in message
<5310f9b9afriscos@gotadsl.co.uk>:

> In article <2737921053.ricp@user.minijem.plus.com>, Richard Porter
> <ricp@minijem.plus.com> wrote:
> > On most applications, including messenger Pro, the speed of the pointer
> > in relation to the scroll wheel on the mouse is just about right, but on
> > NetSurf it is much too fast so it's almost impossible to use on long web
> > pages. Is there any way to adjust the scroll wheel speed for NetSurf
> > independently of the global settings? Mouse movement itself is OK.
>
> > RiscPC, OS 6.14, NS #822
>
> Scroll speed on my Iyonix/BB is perfect especially for long pages. It was
> painfully slow on earlier versions. I would certainly not want it going
> any slower.

IIRC, NetSurf has special-cased scroll wheel support for the different
versions of RISC OS, due to differences in the implementations between the
systems. When I added support for scrolling the new frames, I tested it on
RISC OS 5; I have no access to RISC OS 6, and so am unlikely to ever test
the different set of code that gets used on that system.

> Unfortunately HID as suggested by John wouldn't work on the RiscPC because
> it was designed for the Castle Technology USB stack.

Correct. HID also complicates things, as it removes some of the "quirks" of
the vanilla RISC OS 5 scroll wheel support. I'm fairly sure that I tested
NetSurf with and without HID running, however.

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