Can I scroll horizontally without having the pointer over the scroll bar? Please?

[batesbc]

Gah. The tilt wheel mouse has been in use by LabVIEW users (judging by the old messages about this I've found) since 2001. However, every solution for "Can I scroll horizontally, please?" is "Hover over the scroll bar and use the regular scroll wheel."

The whole point of having the tilt is that you *don't* have to move your mouse away from what you're doing (working on your front panel or block diagram) to go hunt down the scroll bar.

This is a *huge* usability win in spreadsheets, and it would be for LabVIEW as well, were it possible.

We're encouraged to write code left-to-right, so why do we not have a way to move around it without having to stop what we're *really* doing to go find a scroll bar or (in LV 7.1) a navigation window? (And don't tell me about auto-tool either: even with "Ctrl to swap to second-most-useful-command" it still doesn't go to a text edit cursor over string constants (LV 7.1.1), which kills its usability for me. Thus I can't use its Ctrl+Shift == "hand to grab your diagram" function.) I understand NI's decision to write their own scroll bar control for cross-platform purposes, and I would agree that it's the thing to do in this situation, but that means LabVIEW's scroll bar (for better or for worse) is expected to *act* just like the ones in every other windows application, since it *looks* like the ones in every other windows application.

So, two proposed solutions:

- Tilt Wheel Support
- Add the open hand tool to the cycle that gets tabbed through when you're *not* using auto-tool. (or tell me where I can add it myself.)

LabVIEW is a great tool, but even the best tool is annoying to use if you get splinters every time you pick it up.

[Chaos]

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even with "Ctrl to swap to second-most-useful-command" it still doesn't go to a text edit cursor over string constants (LV 7.1.1), which kills its usability for me.

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I cant comment on the tilt wheel comments as I dont have one on my mouse.  But I recommend the auto tool What works for me is using the auto-tool and if you need to edit something (like a string constant) double left click in the strings main area and it will go into edit mode.  Just an FYI.  Sounds like a good suggestion to me

[batesbc]

Ahhh, that works. Thanks for the tip!

Edit: It doesn't change my desire for a working tilt wheel in LabVIEW, but it'll (hopefully) suffice until such functionality is added.

Message Edited by batesbc on 09-15-2005 09:44 AM

[tst]

I strongly agree. Using the wheel to scroll up&down is much easier than using the scroll bar.

Most mice allow you to push the wheel down to achieve the same effect that ctrl gives you now - if you press the wheel, you can move the mouse to get panning of the open window.