Thread: Help-Viewer awefully slow when using the trackpad to scroll

Hi

I just noticed that the Help-View of pgadmin3 is awefully slow on osx when
I scroll using the trackpad (Putting two fingers on the trackpad, and moving
them up and down is the "scroll-wheel" äquivalent for trackpads on osx).

This scrolling-method isn't natively support on my notebook by apple - I use
an open-source trackpad driver called iScroll, which supports this on older
macs too. Trackpad-Scrolling works fine in all other apps, so it can't be soley
the fault of the driver...

Scrolling is acceptably fast (but could still be a bit faster) when using the
scrollbar - I guess using the trackpad somehow generates too many scroll-events
per second, and the helpview just redraws the screen over and over, instead of
ignoring a few of this events..

Is there anything pgadmin could do to solve that, or is this the fault of wx?
It's not a terrible important problem, but it's annoying if you're used to
scroll using the trackpad..

greetings, Florian Pflug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgadmin-hackers-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgadmin-hackers-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of
> Florian G. Pflug
> Sent: 08 May 2006 02:07
> To: pgadmin-hackers
> Subject: [pgadmin-hackers] Help-Viewer awefully slow when
> using the trackpad to scroll
>
> Hi
>
> I just noticed that the Help-View of pgadmin3 is awefully
> slow on osx when I scroll using the trackpad (Putting two
> fingers on the trackpad, and moving them up and down is the
> "scroll-wheel" äquivalent for trackpads on osx).
>
> This scrolling-method isn't natively support on my notebook
> by apple - I use an open-source trackpad driver called
> iScroll, which supports this on older macs too.
> Trackpad-Scrolling works fine in all other apps, so it can't
> be soley the fault of the driver...
>
> Scrolling is acceptably fast (but could still be a bit
> faster) when using the scrollbar - I guess using the trackpad
> somehow generates too many scroll-events per second, and the
> helpview just redraws the screen over and over, instead of
> ignoring a few of this events..
>
> Is there anything pgadmin could do to solve that, or is this
> the fault of wx?
> It's not a terrible important problem, but it's annoying if
> you're used to scroll using the trackpad..

Almost certainly wx's fault. How does the wx 'Help' sample app behave?

Regards, Dave.