FW: repeat delay for (lesstif) toolkit scrollbar arrows

FW: repeat delay for (lesstif) toolkit scrollbar arrows

[Marshall, Simon]

I didn't get any respsonses to this---does that mean Emacs doesn't
support it and noone knows how to make it support it?  Ta, Simon.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Marshall, Simon 
> Sent:	03 May 2002 10:28
> To:	'Emacs Developers'
> Subject:	repeat delay for (lesstif) toolkit scrollbar arrows
> 
> I hesitate in asking this in case I've missed something in the
> manual...
> I use LessTif, which has nice scrollbar arrows to scroll up/down by
> individual lines.
> However, if I hold mouse-1 on an arrow, the "repeat time" of events
> that Emacs sees and calls scroll-bar-toolkit-scroll is too long and
> scrolling too slow for me.
> 
> It feels like there should be an Emacs variable to control it (like
> mouse-scroll-delay, but that seems to be for dragging within a window
> only).
> Perhaps it is something defined by the toolkit and beyond the reach of
> Emacs to control?
> Or something defined by the windowing system (I use CDE, but none of
> the mouse parameters have any effect)?
> 
> Any pointers?

Re: FW: repeat delay for (lesstif) toolkit scrollbar arrows

[Richard Stallman]

I know nothing about LessTif (or Motif), so I have nothing to say.

Re: FW: repeat delay for (lesstif) toolkit scrollbar arrows

[Stefan Monnier]

> I didn't get any respsonses to this---does that mean Emacs doesn't
> support it and noone knows how to make it support it?  Ta, Simon.

I think that indeed means that Emacs does not support it.
As for whether someone knows how to make it support it... well I don't.
How do other Motif applications behave?
AFAIU, Emacs does not use Motif's toplevel loop so it uses a
timer interrupt to poll for repeat-events instead, which might lead
to some problems, but then again maybe it's just the normal Motif
behavior and maybe you can change it via Xresources.


	Stefan


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Marshall, Simon 
> > Sent:	03 May 2002 10:28
> > To:	'Emacs Developers'
> > Subject:	repeat delay for (lesstif) toolkit scrollbar arrows
> > 
> > I hesitate in asking this in case I've missed something in the
> > manual...
> > I use LessTif, which has nice scrollbar arrows to scroll up/down by
> > individual lines.
> > However, if I hold mouse-1 on an arrow, the "repeat time" of events
> > that Emacs sees and calls scroll-bar-toolkit-scroll is too long and
> > scrolling too slow for me.
> > 
> > It feels like there should be an Emacs variable to control it (like
> > mouse-scroll-delay, but that seems to be for dragging within a window
> > only).
> > Perhaps it is something defined by the toolkit and beyond the reach of
> > Emacs to control?
> > Or something defined by the windowing system (I use CDE, but none of
> > the mouse parameters have any effect)?
> > 
> > Any pointers?
> 
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