Re: Feedback

@Poobah wrote:

@Zynewave wrote:

I remember testing this a couple of years ago, and was not happy with the result. I have a mouse with side-tilt, but it provides horrible accuracy.

Wouldn’t it be better to have it available for the users who would use it? The users who don’t like it could just not use it. I don’t think its accuracy is any worse than a scroll wheel; they both scroll a fixed amount that is configurable in Windows.

Is the code for the tilt support the same as for a horizontal scroll wheel? (I mean checking for a WM_MOUSEHWHEEL window message.) I remember once having a mouse that had two scroll wheels – one for vertical and one for horizontal. It’s useful when applications support both directions rather than ignoring the horizontal scroll messages.

My mouse only supports on/off side tilt of the wheel, which means you cannot adjust the speed of scroll as you can by rotating the mouse wheel. The WM_MOUSEWHEEL message only reports vertical scroll wheel. Considering the time required to implement this feature, and the small number of users who will find it useful, I put this feature request at a very low priority.

The reason I’m talking about all of this scrolling stuff is I find this aspect of the program a bit annoying. With most good Windows applications, you can scroll using a native scroll bar, horizontal scroll wheel or using the middle mouse button. With Podium, you can’t do any of these. I know that you can use the viewport thing at the top of the arrangement editor to scroll horizontally, but it also scrolls vertically, which I find annoying; I don’t want the arrangement to be scrolling around vertically when I’m trying to scroll horizontally.

If you want horizontal scrollbars in the editors, it is possible to add those by editing the editor profiles (adding a scrollbar region). Editing the profiles requires some insight into how the profiles work though, as it’s possible to mess up the editors. If that happens, use the “restore default editor profiles” setup menu command.

The reason the horizontal scrollbars are not there by default, is because they take up space, and that there are plenty of other ways to navigate. Personally I found that I never used the scrollbars. I always use the Ctrl+Alt+Shift key combinations to activate the zoom/slide tools, or hover the mouse over the “Navigator” at the top and use the mouse buttons/wheel. If you click above/below the marked range in the navigator, you can scroll horizontally with vertical position locked.