Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> how do you know when you get there?
>
| 1) You go to almost the right place using key repeat and the scrollbar.
>
| 2) You tap the PgDn key so it doesn't repeat, until you are there.
>
| The same as aiming a telescope: release fine motion, swing to the
| general area of the sky, clamp fine motion and aim precisely :-)
Yeah. but in this case I don't know where I am pointing when I clam to
fine motion. Perhaps I already over-shot.
And you are forcing the scrollbar on me..., that mean I have to use
the mouse. Do we want to force mousy behaviour?
>> | I don't like your use of a key event queue in the front-end for
>> | achieving the effect. It's unnatural.
>>
>> Ohhh.... :-)
>>
>> Well I disagree.
>>
>> What the event queue accomplishes is to say that: "We do not allow
>> auto-repeat events to queue up faster than we are able to handle
>> them."
>>
>> If you have another way of achieving that goal then I am all ears.
>
| So am I. I suppose it is fundamentally impossible as in the LyX core you
| cannot manipulate the X/Qt event loop.
Actually with XForms we can solve it "differently" since there we
actually can manipulate the X event loop.
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Lgb
