Mouse Wheel

[Wes Clark]

Now that I have a mouse wheel, I'm hooked on it. Using it to move up and down a web page or document is really nice. In Textpad, using the mouse wheel does move the page up and down, but the response is sluggish, and can't keep up; that is, the reaction trails the use of the wheel.
Is there a way to "smarten up" Textpad to do a better job of scrolling with the wheel?

[Randall McDougall]

I've got a fairly old system and don't find that at all ... You may have some other "tuning" problem.

btw, since you like the scroll function you might enjoy finding that Textpad (4.4 at least) uses it wheel for side to sidescroll too if you hold down ctrl ^_^

[Wes Clark]

When I move the mouse wheel, each "click" on the wheel causes the page to scoll a single line at a time. If you roll the wheel fairly quickly, the single line scrolls stack up and the page move relatively sluggishly, On the other hand, if I do the same on this Web page, each wheel "click" moves the page about 5 or so lines in each direction. Then the wheel becomes an effective tool to quickly move to a new position in a relatively large file.

So what I might be asking from the Textpad vendor is to allow the wheel movement's effect to be configurable to something other than a single line scroll.

[Randall McDougall]

I'd say this depends a lot on your mouse vendor -- for me, one click is 3 lines in textpad -- about 6 here. But that's configurable in the mouse properties (available from the control panel -- and incidentally, there I have it set to 1 click==3 lines) ... Note that I'm using a Logitech mouse/driver, so your options may vary.

[robbage]

Mine scrolls 9 lines at a time in TP. It's an MS Wheel mouse optical but I had about the same response with my Logitech. I recommend going to the MS website and downloading the Intellimouse software. This software works with every wheel mouse I've tried (even the $10 mouse from the local department store)

http://www.microsoft.com/products/hardw ... efault.htm

[Wes Clark]

I recently switched computers and the problem is gone. On the computer with the problem, all scrolling was "smooth", and I think that's why it couldn't keep up with the mouse wheel. I looked everywhere to try and turn this off (a Winndows 2000 box, as is this one), and couldn't. Someone suggested it was the memory on the video card (8MB), but I don't know.