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Originally Posted by dkirkwoodjr
That was buggin' me too, but for short lists wasnt a problem because there was nothing to scroll... Mainly bothered me in tmail.exe (messaging)... I was using the keyboard that has the ctrl button for a while that was handling one way for me, but then later I noticed at least in wm6.5's tmail, that an option as there from the right soft key menu to select several, which I can get used too, but a better fix than these would be desired...
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Yea, I first noticed (and was annoyed the most by) it in Total Commander ... And although Total Commander has a multiple-selection toggle function as well, it still isn't nearly as convienent as drag-selection ... Not to mention, alot of older apps don't have a similar function ... I think the main reason you see that option in tmail.exe is because it's part of the new OS and the WM devs saw that they had no choice but to implement it ...
At least one app that is included in the new OS (notepad.exe) has "solved" :P the problem in the opposite matter by disabling kinetic scrolling alltogether ... I find this very annoying but also encouraging ... If we can figure out how it is being disabled we can reproduce the effect ..
Unfortunately I have already searched the registry for some type of exclusion list containing "notepad.exe" and found nothing ...
If anyone has any insight, please PM me or post here, I am more than willing to do the coding if we can figure out how to toggle kinetic scrolling programatically...
Edit: On a side note that I haven't mentioned yet, The ability to toggle or shift the kinetic scrolling support would also hopefully allow us to use kinetic scrolling in any APP (even notepad.exe and the like) and shrink our WM API scrollbars to a few pixels to use them as more of an indicator of position rather than a scrolling interface ... This would give us much more screen real-estate, and IMHO, a much sleeker looking GUI ...