Subject: RE: A lurkers inquiry (LSX is down)
From: Gakko (gakko@sleepy.dk)
Date: Fri Jan 19 2001 - 12:27:33 CST
Hi Dom
LSX doesn't seem to be at its best at the moment - in fact it doesn't work
at all.
Other than that, it might be a while before I have the time to get and down
and dirty with the code myself, since I'm on the last two weeks of my
Masters Thesis at the moment :)
But if no one else grabs the idea before mid-February or so, I might give it
a try.
Jesper
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dom Lachowicz [mailto:cinamod@hotmail.com]
> Sent: 19. januar 2001 18:15
> To: gakko@sleepy.dk
> Subject: Re: A lurkers inquiry
>
>
> Hi Jesper,
>
> I like your idea - esp. the tooltip and the "56/213 (27)" ones. I
> think that
> the tooltip idea will be harder to implement. However, if you
> want to make a
> patch for either, please go ahead :)
>
> You might want to do a search for "scroll" using LXR. Of particular
> interest, you'll see
> http://www.abisource.com/lxr/source/abi/src/text/fmt/xp/fv_View.cpp#5038
>
> This should help a bit.
>
> Dom
>
> >From: "Gakko" <gakko@sleepy.dk>
> >To: <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> >Subject: A lurkers inquiry
> >Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 12:51:58 +0100
> >
> >Hi everyone
> >After having been an avid lurker on this list, I am finally "coming out"
> >with my first set of questions.
> >I was reading through Dom's imp/exp doc, and I noticed something.
> >The page count in the status bar always shows the page where the
> cursor is.
> >This means that if I browse through a document using the
> scrollbar, there
> >is
> >no indication of where I am at the moment (unless the author uses page
> >numbers)
> >Now, this is no problem in a doc of 4 pages, but what if I was
> >reading/browsing a much larger doc, say > 100 pages.
> >I checked with my version of Word2K, and it shows the page number of the
> >page in view and not that of the cursor's position.
> >In my opinion, neither method is satisfactory. I have often been annoyed
> >that Word jumps back to the cursor if I inadvertently press arrow up/down
> >after having browsed using the scrollbar. But I find it very useful to
> >quickly be able to see which page I'm looking at.
> >
> >So my suggestion is this:
> >How about changing the status text to something like
> > Page: 56/213 (cursor on 27)
> >or
> > Page: 56/213(27)
> >or
> > Page: 56(27)/213
> >or something 4th
> >
> >or maybe use another of Word's ideas; show the current page number as a
> >tool
> >tip on the scrollbar, when scrolling.
> >
> >any comments?
> >
> >Jesper Larsen-Ledet
> >
> > - If pigs could fly, would they migrate?
> >
> >
>
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