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    #1

    Scroll pages instead of records?

    Is there a way to configure A5, either globally or at the form/browse level, to scroll a page at a time instead of a record at a time?

    Thx!
    Jerry Hatchett

    CERTIFIED COMPUTER EXAMINER
    LICENSED PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR

    Digital Forensics & E-Discovery

    Red Forensic
    Houston, TX
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    #2
    Re: Scroll pages instead of records?

    I don't think so. You could have arrow buttons with something like:
    Code:
    for i = 1 to 9
   topparent:Browse1.fetch_next()
next
    setting the number to provide for what consititutes a page for your browse.
    Mike W
    __________________________
    "I rebel in at least small things to express to the world that I have not completely surrendered"

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      #3
      Re: Scroll pages instead of records?

      If there is a scroll bar on the right(settable) in a browse, you can scroll a page at a time by clicking on the vacant space instead of the up or down arrow.
      Dave Mason
      [email protected]
      Skype is dave.mason46

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        #4
        Re: Scroll pages instead of records?

        Thanks for the responses, guys. What I'm really looking for is a way to quickly move up and down through a browse using the mouse wheel. Sounds like that's not possible. :-(
        Jerry Hatchett

        CERTIFIED COMPUTER EXAMINER
        LICENSED PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR

        Digital Forensics & E-Discovery

        Red Forensic
        Houston, TX

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          #5
          Re: Scroll pages instead of records?

          Yes it is. I actually had to reset the mouse in windows to stop the action in all programs. I think I got that right.

          I believe if you can do it in other programs, it also works in Alpha.

          It has been over a year ago since I crossed it, but there was discussion on that.

          .
          Dave Mason
          [email protected]
          Skype is dave.mason46

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            #6
            Re: Scroll pages instead of records?

            Dave is correct on both counts. A mouse wheel will move you up or down just like it does in most any program, at least in V9 with the "new" browse (pretty sure it is true with the old browse too). Also, as Dave said, clicking on the white area of the vertical scroll bar you move up or down one page a time. Seems that is all you wanted, right?

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              #7
              Re: Scroll pages instead of records?

              No, and I'll clarify: The wheel works now. Unfortunately, one click of the wheel is one record. I was hoping there was a way to have one click equal more than one record up or down. Get a browse on screen with a lot of records and try wheeling through it; your finger will wear out. Now compare that wheel action to what you see in browsers, or Word, or Excel, or you name it.

              Thx...


              Originally posted by Raymond Lyons View Post
              Dave is correct on both counts. A mouse wheel will move you up or down just like it does in most any program, at least in V9 with the "new" browse (pretty sure it is true with the old browse too). Also, as Dave said, clicking on the white area of the vertical scroll bar you move up or down one page a time. Seems that is all you wanted, right?
              Jerry Hatchett

              CERTIFIED COMPUTER EXAMINER
              LICENSED PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR

              Digital Forensics & E-Discovery

              Red Forensic
              Houston, TX

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                #8
                Re: Scroll pages instead of records?

                Have you tried clicking on the white space in the vertical scroll bar, as Dave suggested? That moves you down a full "page", the same as if you pushed the Page Down key on the keyboard. Or, if you hold down the Down arrow key, you rapidly move down.

                In any case, in a database program such as Alpha Five, moving one record with each mouse wheel click makes perfect sense to me. I would not want it to do anything more than that, and when I want to do what you want, I usually use the Page Down key or sometimes the white space on the scroll bar. But, I guess, to each his own in terms of what is ideal.

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                  #9
                  Re: Scroll pages instead of records?

                  Try this: Place your mouse in the white space between the up and down arrow and use your wheel. I think it will work for you.

                  .
                  Dave Mason
                  [email protected]
                  Skype is dave.mason46

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                    #10
                    Re: Scroll pages instead of records?

                    Originally posted by DaveM View Post
                    Try this: Place your mouse in the white space between the up and down arrow and use your wheel. I think it will work for you.
                    Dave,

                    With the old browse that may work (i.e., work the same as excel, etc., which for me is 3 records per click). But with the "new" browse as it exists in v9, it does not work reliably. When I say "reliably" I mean I did get it to work once, but then when I did something else and tried it again nothing I did would more than one record per wheel click. This is fine if you can go back to the old browse but for me I am stuck having to use the new browse because some bugs fixes I got require the new browse even though the fixes (an unreleased patch) have nothing to do with the new browse. For purposes of this thread this is not a big deal for me but for other reasons it is.

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                      #11
                      Re: Scroll pages instead of records?

                      Thanks Ray.

                      I can no longer test it here due to shutting of the scroller on my laptop because I was constantly changing records with the pad mouse.

                      I will see if I can figure it out some tomorrow on my desktop at work.

                      There has to be a way to get around this.

                      .
                      Dave Mason
                      [email protected]
                      Skype is dave.mason46

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