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It'd be neat to incorporate more mouse gestures into textpad, or allow hooks so plugins could utilize them. Granted, mouse input probably has limited use for most text editing. But for viewing code and navigating through, it'd be invaluable.

Specifically: click and hold the mouse anywhere on the document, and it's as if you've grabbed the scroll bar. The benefit is that you can be anywhere on the page, you don't have to take your eyes off the code or aim at the scroll bar (just a bit quicker). Alternatively (and less desirable for me) is the word/internet explorer-type autoscroll (click and drag, you have the crosshair, and the document scrolls by at a constant speed).

Is there any way to hook this in now?

I'd be willing to vote on a configurable mouse gesture integration if you want to throw a 5 option poll out there. I can't count the number of times I've made the close tab motion (imitate Zoro) in TP only realize I'm not in Opera.

jumpfroggy wrote:Alternatively (and less desirable for me) is the word/internet explorer-type autoscroll (click and drag, you have the crosshair, and the document scrolls by at a constant speed).

Textpad can do that - see also http://www.textpad.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6146

It must be settings in your mouse driver or your textpad that do prevent this happening on your machine.

On my laptop here, I can imagine it's the IBM Thinkpad drivers (since it does funny things with the middle mouse button and other misc. buttons). But at home I have an MS mouse with no drivers besides the Win2k builtin ones, and it doesn't work there (yet works in Internet Explorer both machines).

Do the builtin drivers that come with windows prevent this from working in textpad?

Also, this does not address the grab-n-drag scrolling, which is very different, and much more useful for me. It's a personal preference, as always, but I find it much easier to control than the autoscroll. Grab-n-drag is not used anywhere in windows normally. I've only seen it in Firefox as a gestures extension.

For the people who have autoscroll working... could it be extra mouse drivers that are providing this functionality? Still trying to see if it's my computer with the problem.

For me, it's the logitech mouse driver.

There is an icon in the sys tray - right click on it gives a menu with "Mouse Properties".
In the properties, on the tab "Buttons", the middle button is configured to "Autoscroll".