[arachne] Re: Slow scrolling of large screens

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On Wed, 31 May 2006 16:43:52 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:

> Virtual screen effects mainly vertical scrolling only.

> It has very little effect on horizontal scrolling.

I see.

> What effects side-scrolling even more than the size of the virtual
> screen is 'Realtime smooth scrolling ("Netscape")'

Without this option, the cursor keys only move the mouse pointer...

> This is the reason why such drastic horizontal scrolling is needed
> when viewing the SRC of that page with F6...............

> http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/longline.txt
> Yes, you got it.... it is one line 1742 characters long.

> Here is the same file modified to require much less side-scrolling.
> http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/shortlines.htm

> Does that work better now ?

Yes. Since this is a screen generated by Arachne, what about adding
an option to wrap-around these long lines automatically, like the one I
suggested for text input boxes? This might solve not only one but two
problems, and perhaps could even help reduce the frequent crashes when
text searches are conducted on the page source screen.

Regards,

Udo

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