Scrollmouse doesn't work correctly

I apologize if this seems obvious, but are you sure you are thinking about this in the right way? If you roll the scroll wheel down, towards you, the scroll bar thumb should move down, but the contents of the window should scroll up, so new material comes in at the bottom. Is that not what you see?

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On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:45:18 +0200, Dick Kniep <dick.kniep@lindix.nl>

I noticed an annoying problem with a scroll mouse. Using a Labtec scroll mouse in a wxPython application (2.4.2.4) and Python 2.3 it sometimes works, but sometimes it doesn't. The scrollbar moves in the correct direction, but the screen itself moves in the opposite direction.

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Yes I am _very_ sure. Using a Slackware 10.0 with KDE 3.2.2 and this Labtec
mouse (but I think any scroll mouse), in Boa Constructor (so not my own
application) the scroll bar moves down, but the screen moves up. (Hey I
didn't make this up) It doesn't happen all the time, but only sometimes.
Please tell me it is a quirck of my installation and nobody else has this
problem because it is annoying and very confusing.

Cheers,
Dick Kniep

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On Tuesday 28 September 2004 21:21, Tim Roberts wrote:

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:45:18 +0200, Dick Kniep <dick.kniep@lindix.nl>

>I noticed an annoying problem with a scroll mouse. Using a Labtec scroll
> mouse in a wxPython application (2.4.2.4) and Python 2.3 it sometimes
> works, but sometimes it doesn't. The scrollbar moves in the correct
> direction, but the screen itself moves in the opposite direction.

I apologize if this seems obvious, but are you sure you are thinking
about this in the right way? If you roll the scroll wheel down, towards
you, the scroll bar thumb should move down, but the contents of the
window should scroll up, so new material comes in at the bottom. Is
that not what you see?

Dick Kniep wrote:

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On Tuesday 28 September 2004 21:21, Tim Roberts wrote:

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:45:18 +0200, Dick Kniep <dick.kniep@lindix.nl>

I noticed an annoying problem with a scroll mouse. Using a Labtec scroll
mouse in a wxPython application (2.4.2.4) and Python 2.3 it sometimes
works, but sometimes it doesn't. The scrollbar moves in the correct
direction, but the screen itself moves in the opposite direction.

I apologize if this seems obvious, but are you sure you are thinking
about this in the right way? If you roll the scroll wheel down, towards
you, the scroll bar thumb should move down, but the contents of the
window should scroll up, so new material comes in at the bottom. Is
that not what you see?

Yes I am _very_ sure. Using a Slackware 10.0 with KDE 3.2.2 and this Labtec mouse (but I think any scroll mouse), in Boa Constructor (so not my own application) the scroll bar moves down, but the screen moves up. (Hey I didn't make this up) It doesn't happen all the time, but only sometimes. Please tell me it is a quirck of my installation and nobody else has this problem because it is annoying and very confusing.

What about the other (non-wx) apps, do they behave the same way? When you say "the screen moves up" do you mean that the content on screen moves up and off the top of the window, or that you see new content coming down from the top of the window?

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Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!

Dick Kniep wrote:
>>
>>>I noticed an annoying problem with a scroll mouse. Using a Labtec scroll
>>>mouse in a wxPython application (2.4.2.4) and Python 2.3 it sometimes
>>>works, but sometimes it doesn't. The scrollbar moves in the correct
>>>direction, but the screen itself moves in the opposite direction.
>>
>>I apologize if this seems obvious, but are you sure you are thinking
>>about this in the right way? If you roll the scroll wheel down, towards
>>you, the scroll bar thumb should move down, but the contents of the
>>window should scroll up, so new material comes in at the bottom. Is
>>that not what you see?
>
> Yes I am _very_ sure. Using a Slackware 10.0 with KDE 3.2.2 and this
> Labtec mouse (but I think any scroll mouse), in Boa Constructor (so not
> my own application) the scroll bar moves down, but the screen moves up.
> (Hey I didn't make this up) It doesn't happen all the time, but only
> sometimes. Please tell me it is a quirck of my installation and nobody
> else has this problem because it is annoying and very confusing.

What about the other (non-wx) apps, do they behave the same way?

Otherwise the scroll mouse behaves as it should, i.e. scrolling up when it is
supposed, scrolling down also.

When
you say "the screen moves up" do you mean that the content on screen
moves up and off the top of the window, or that you see new content
coming down from the top of the window?

I do not completely understand what you want to know, but I'll try again to
explain.

When I use the scroll mouse, and I turn the scrollwheel towards myself the
scrollbar on the right side of the window where the cursor is in, is supposed
to go down, and the text is supposed to go up in the window, effectively
disappearing from the top of the screen and appearing at the bottom.
Turning the scrollwheel in the other direction reverses the process. (yes I am
a genius :slight_smile:

Now SOMETIMES, when I am working in Boa Constructor and I want to scroll down
(so turning the scrollwheel towards myself), the scroll bar on the right side
of the screen moves down (so this is as expected), but the text moves down
also! i.e. appearing from the top of the window, and disappearing at the
bottom. Again sometimes, this happens, and can be restored easily when I
click in the scrollbar.

But it is very confusing....

Cheers,
Dick

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On Friday 08 October 2004 21:55, Robin Dunn wrote:

> On Tuesday 28 September 2004 21:21, Tim Roberts wrote:
>>On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:45:18 +0200, Dick Kniep <dick.kniep@lindix.nl>

Dick Kniep wrote:

Now SOMETIMES, when I am working in Boa Constructor and I want to scroll down (so turning the scrollwheel towards myself), the scroll bar on the right side of the screen moves down (so this is as expected), but the text moves down also! i.e. appearing from the top of the window, and disappearing at the bottom. Again sometimes, this happens, and can be restored easily when I click in the scrollbar.

Okay. Can you consistently duplicate it or is it random? Can you make any other wxSTC-based editor window do it?

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Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
http://wxPython.org Java give you jitters? Relax with wxPython!