-=> On 07 Aug 95  00:37:00 Doug Swenson said to All <=-

 DS> When scrolling through text, using the arrow keys, my program falls
 DS> behind the input buffer, causing the annoying effect of scrolling
 DS> after the key has been released.

 DS> The vertical scroll buttons don't have this problem.

 DS> I thought that the SB msgs may have been combined by OS2, so I used
 DS> WinPostMsg for the vertical arrow keys, to use the SB vertical logic.

 DS> There was no change.  What am I missing here?


The program needs to flush its input buffer after performing a scroll. Ideally,
it gets one key, then flushes the buffer, so one command only sits in the queue
making continuous scrolling possible.

Perhaps, the program should count the number of scrolls in the queue and then
lump them to determine the next position.

However, its up to the App what it does, not the OS.

Anyone who writes scroll algorithms like the one in E.EXE should not
be allowed to write code ever again (IMHO).


Andrew
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