Issue 24359 - No scrolling with notebook trackpoint
Summary: No scrolling with notebook trackpoint
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 53249
Alias: None
Product: gsl
Classification: Code
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P4 Trivial with 4 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: AOO PleaseHelp
Assignee: stephan_schaefer
QA Contact: issues@gsl
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: 17214 24357 52445 53604 53852 (view as issue list)
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Reported: 2004-01-13 15:42 UTC by ds13
Modified: 2005-09-02 09:37 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description ds13 2004-01-13 15:42:40 UTC 
Hello,
within OO 1.1.0 (word processor, spreadsheet, etc.) scrolling doesn't work on my
notebooks (IBM Thinkpad T22, with Win2000 SP4) trackpoint (minijoystick): 
Pressing the Center button shows the "Scrolling"-icon, but moving the trackpoint
has no effect.

With my wheelmouse, scrolling by wheel works. So first I thought it's a problem
of the trackpoint driver.
But it's a new driver and scrolling works with all, really all other programs -
except OO...

Dirk
Comment 1 h.ilter 2004-01-14 14:57:31 UTC 
HI->TM: Sounds like framework
Comment 2 thorsten.martens 2004-01-15 09:33:40 UTC 
TM->BH: As talked to GW, this is more an enhancement than a defect. Some apps.
provide the scroll-ability of this minijoystick (like MSIE or MS-Office), others
don´t (like Mozilla). We should support this feature too. So please have a look,
Thanks !
Comment 3 ds13 2004-01-16 10:38:55 UTC 
Hello tm,

I don't know which release of Mozilla *you* got,
but mine (1.4 Win) supports my trackpoint very well. ;-)

Indeed, OpenOffice is really-really the only application I have, that doesn't. :-(
Thanks nonetheless!

Dirk
Comment 4 Oliver Specht 2004-01-19 07:40:17 UTC 
*** Issue 24357 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 5 Oliver Specht 2004-01-19 07:45:21 UTC 
os->ssa: I have an Acer Aspire 1353 and scrolling doesn't work either (Windows
XP Home). 
I suspect that a lot of notebooks have similar scroll tools and that there's a
Windows API that's not supported by VCL. 
Re-targetted to 2.0, Component changed to gsl.
Comment 6 mci 2004-05-27 11:06:13 UTC 
*** Issue 17214 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 7 Martin Hollmichel 2004-05-28 15:32:41 UTC 
according to the announcement on releases
(http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=releases&msgNo=7503) this issue
will be re-targeted to OOo Later.
Comment 8 stephan_schaefer 2005-07-25 15:48:38 UTC 
*** Issue 52445 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 9 stephan_schaefer 2005-07-25 15:59:44 UTC 
Scrolling with this kind of trackpoints/drivers is implemented in an awkward
way. Instead of submitting mousewheel messages the drivers look for a visible
Windows scrollbar control in the active window and temporarily position the
mouse pointer over a button of this scrollbar and issue button down events in
order to 'scroll'.
Because OOo has no native Windows scrollbar but paints its scrollbars by itself,
the driver has no chance to find this control. The obvious solution would be to
use a native scrollbar. However, this is not as simple as it sounds and would
require severe changes. May be this can be attacked for the next major release.
Comment 10 stp 2005-08-28 09:00:46 UTC 
*** Issue 53604 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 11 stp 2005-08-28 09:01:14 UTC 
*** Issue 53852 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 12 stephan_schaefer 2005-09-02 09:35:24 UTC 
In fact there is a workaround as described in issue 53249, which means I don't
have to implement weird hacks to get a native scrollbar! Thanks to jpdumoulin
for finding that out!


*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 53249 ***
Comment 13 stephan_schaefer 2005-09-02 09:37:35 UTC 
closing