Re: Scrolling in Xcode editor
Re: Scrolling in Xcode editor
- Subject: Re: Scrolling in Xcode editor
- From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:19:21 -0400
- Organization: Rogue Research
On 2006-10-26 23:26, Chris Espinosa said:
>>> Do any of you know if there is a way to change the way Xcode scrolls
>>> through text files as I find its default behaviour extremely
>>> distracting and counter intuitive.
>>
>> This must be a "feature" of whatever Xcode uses as a text editor.
>> TextEdit and Mail do it too. If there isn't an advanced pref for
>> turning this off, we need to request they add a pref for it,
>> possibly even a system pref so I can turn it off for all apps that
>> use it.
>
>This is indeed standard AppKit behavior (rdar://2561308)
Oooooohhhh. That's an old one! Older than my oldest bug in Radar,
which puts it from mid-2000 I'd say. I guess we all better file dupes! :)
For fun, I've just looked through the AHIG. I cannot find anything
about this behaviour. That doesn't surprise me since the AHIG seems
focused on pixel count and other graphical things, and not so much on
human factors. But I've gone back to the original HIG (Nov 1992
edition) and found some interesting bits. It has a section called
"Automatic Scrolling", but while it doesn't seem to discuss this exact
situation, it discusses several very similar ones. Excerpts:
"When your application performs an operation whose side effect is to
make a new selection or move the insertion point, scroll the document to
show the new selection. [...] Whenever your application scrolls a
document automatically, avoid unnecessary scrolling. Users want to
control the position of documents, so your application should move a
document only as much as necessary."
And yes, CodeWarrior does not have this scrolling oddity. :)
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Sean McBride, B. Eng email@hidden
Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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