The single most annoying thing
-
Hey!
I have been using it for a long time. Do not take that as a whining or… trolling.
So, the most annoying thing about the Notepad++ is…
You click+hold on the scrollbar. The right of the screen. And do some scrolling.
When the mouse goes a bit too far to the left or right, the hiccup happens. And cant scroll any further.
After so many years, I can’t get used to it. So aware of it. Can’t get used to it.If there is a way out, if there is an option to tune it, I’m so sorry about this post.
But even if there is, the default should be whenever holding the mouse button down and scrolling by moving the mouse up and down,
the left-right movement should be discarded completely and only up-down would be traced.Siim
-
@Siim-Petser said in The single most annoying thing:
But even if there is, the default should be whenever holding the mouse button down and scrolling by moving the mouse up and down,
the left-right movement should be discarded completely and only up-down would be traced.I have a standard mouse (left & right button, scroll wheel with button underneath) and my test shows that even if the mouse strays off the scroll column, it will continue to move the scrollbar up (or down) and no sideways movement occurs.
Do you have an enhanced mouse with additional buttons that is controlled by special software to create hotkeys using the additional buttons or enhanced activities with the standard buttons?
Terry
-
@Terry-R
I have Logitech m170 -
@Siim-Petser
If the cursor gets more than 5 cm to the left side, it stops scrolling and makes a jump back.
If the cursor goes right, its 0.5 cm to make it stop scrolling and jump. -
@Siim-Petser said in The single most annoying thing:
I have Logitech m170
Well, looking at that on the Logitech site I can see it appears to be a “standard” mouse (3 buttons and scroll wheel). However there does appear to be some software you can download to “possibly” enhance it.
As a suggestion, do you have a “normal” USB mouse to try and see if it works differently. Then if it does you could look to the Logitech S/W first.
Terry
-
Ok, I have a standard wired usb mouse at work. Will check it tomorrow.
-
@Siim-Petser said in The single most annoying thing:
If the cursor gets more than 5 cm to the left side, it stops scrolling and makes a jump back.
If the cursor goes right, its 0.5 cm to make it stop scrolling and jump.My previous post was in reference to your post prior to the measurement one. Now that you have given some measurement I rechecked, and you are right. In my case it was quite a bit of lateral movement on left and right side of scroll column before the “break” occurred, in my case around 3cm both sides. If I kept the button depressed and returned the mouse to within those limits the scroll returned to the last “known” position to allow me to continue without issue. So maybe your mouse is operating “normally”. In my case it was so much lateral movement that there would be no way it could occur by mistake. I would have made that lateral movement consciously.
At this point I would have to say that it seems the system is trying to cater for possible lateral slippage when scrolling, however there must be a limit it is willing to accept before determining it is a conscious movement by the user and then it breaks that “connection”. I would suggest this is a Windows function of the mouse, not Notepad++. In fact I just tested with Outlook and same occurs, once outside a limit, roughly 3cm as previous.
Terry
-
The sole reason to come here in this forum was actually this issue.
I guess it is something about some MS standard way to treat it? I’m too ignorant to discuss this.
But, if there is a way to address this, make the scroll bar click+hold to ignore mouse’s left right
movement - it would actually be a good improvement.Thing is, smoothly scrolling through 2-3 pages using scrollbar (not mouse wheel or pgup/down) - the need for this is so unique for a coding editor. My case, that is. Well, there are other cases/apps and it is solved differently.
(for example musical notation software - with their must have “navigator” thingy)
