REQ: Allow for acceleration of the scroll wheel

[Hoggy]

I think as it was in Intellipoint, IIRC. There were options for accelerating both the up/down scrolling, and I think even for the horizontal tilt-wheel.

That would allow for finer movement when just wanting to go down a few lines, and allow for heavier scrolling when trying to get to the bottom of the page.


Thanks.

[phil]

I'm not sure I can go this. I only intercept the messages sent by the mouse.
To accelerate would mean I would have to inject additional messages - and I'm not sure that would work out too well. This sort of thing really needs to be done at a lower level, i.e, the source of the messages to be reliable

[Hoggy]

Wouldn't setting the priority in it's settings page to 'realtime' work out well for that? I did that already cause, well, it just seemed like it should be anyways. I don't know if it really helps anything or not.

[phil]

It helps, but it still does not guarantee CPU time like a driver can.
The problem is how do you accelerate something that comes in at a random interval (random as in how many scroll messages OR how many lines scrolled in each message)...

[Hoggy]

I've found an extension for Firefox called 'Yet Another Smooth Scrolling' and it seems to do a quite a good job with acceleration in Firefox. With Pale Moon (A Firefox offshoot) it doesn't help as well with the smoothness, but Pale Moon has extremely good smooth scrolling built in. However, we're talking about the acceleration part of that extension that's important.. So I'm still playing with that extension in Pale Moon.

Something to consider.. Have it be an experimental option, even.
(But then again I'm no programmer, so...

[phil]

Does it do acceleration? Is the plug-in open source? The problem is that to do this thing for one window where you know how to make it behave is one thing, to do it globally, where every application can react differently is a different beast.

EDIT: Never mind those two questions, I have installed it and found the source. Will take a look and see how it achieves the acceleration but no promises!

[Hoggy]

That would be awesome... That's one of the biggest things I miss so far with the other bloated programs.

[phil]

Well for sure its not going to get into the 2.8 release. I've somewhat managed it but it breaks loads of stuff as I expected so its going to require a lot more thought