Re: [XForms] repeat timeout in browsers

[Michal Szymanski]

Hi Jens,

> Would it help if there was a longer delay directly after pressing
> the mouse button down, i.e. waiting for e.g. 200 ms before "jumping"
> every 100 ms starts? That way there would be more time to release
> the mouse button and thus avoiding scrolling more than a single
> page. Only if you keep the button pressed longer than that it would
> start to jump a page every 100 ms.

That would be great, though surely requiring more effort.

> > I wonder whether it would be doable/desirable to make this parameter's 
> > default value user-adjustable. There is a (non-documented) function 
> > 'fl_set_slider_repeat' which sets the parameter but only for a single 
> > slider object. Furthermore, the slider being a part of a browser is not 
> > accessible (or at least, I do not know how to access it).
> 
> I seem have to added that some time ago but never got around to
> documenting it. Of course, I could add a similar function for
> the browsers sliders. Writing the documentation for it probably
> will take more time than writing the code;-) I'll add it in the
> next few days.

That is OK, thanks. Still, I think that these delays/timeouts setting is
quite sensitive to users' personal preferences, manual abilities. And
for a given user, they should be the same for all sliders/scrollbars
used. So rather than allowing to set them for individual objects (which
can also be available, why not), I think it would be best to be able to
set the default for the whole application (which would even allow the
application author adding a runtime option to change it, for other 
users using the app).

regards, Michal.

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  Michal Szymanski (msz at astrouw dot edu dot pl)
  Warsaw University Observatory, Warszawa, POLAND