Ideal D GUI Toolkit

Nick Sabalausky SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com
Tue May 21 14:43:20 PDT 2013


On Tue, 21 May 2013 17:38:15 -0400
Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 21 May 2013 22:44:30 +0200
> Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 2013-05-21 21:47, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > 
> > > What do you mean by "click/scroll through"?  
> > 
> > I can scroll in a window while having another window selected. I
> > think I read you had a tool/application for that on Windows.
> > 
> 
> Oh, yea. That's one of my biggest annoyances on Windows. Makes no
> sense, and only ever gets in the way. I use the freeware KatMouse to
> fix that:
> 
> http://ehiti.de/katmouse/
> 
> It works great on XP, but on Win7 it only works about half the time
> (even on the same program: it'll work one day, then have no effect
> another time, and then work again some other time). Doesn't work at
> all on Claws Mail, I suspect this may be an incompatibility with GTK
> programs in general since they reinvent all the UI controls.
> 
> Unfortunately, KatMouse appears to be both abandonware (last update
> was 2007) and closed-source.
> 
> (I've never understood why people make closed-source freeware:
> Closed-source commercial, ok. OSS, ok. But closed-source freeware?
> Seems kinda pointless.)
> 

Strange, it seems to be working in Claws Mail now...

Oh, wait, now that I think about it, it wasn't KatMouse that didn't work
with Claws Mail, it was my touchpad's "circular motion to scroll"
feature. That's a great feature when I don't have my trackball plugged
into my laptop.



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