Re: wheel mice and forms

i just found a setting with mine

1. scroll window with focus()
2. scroll window under mouse pointer

option 1 is the default and the select will scroll wherever the mouse =
is, option 2 only scrolls it if the mouse is hovering over the select =
box which seems logical to me.

interestingly if you move focus with option 1 you can't scroll the box =
but with option 2 focus moves to the next input but you can scroll the =
select when the mouse it over it.

I think I'll ad an onchange event, and try to convince him that he =
changed it, not easy.

Best Wishes

Paul Roberts
mail at Paul-Roberts dot com

----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Darrell King" <darrell(at)webctr.com>
To: <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: wheel mice and forms


This is something that users will get used to - I had to.

Perhaps you could use a JavaScript onselect() event handler to blur the
select list?

D

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Jones" <dvjones(at)ksbe.edu>



Nothing you can do about it. I've used wheel-pointer devices
on three different OSes now, and three different browsers, and
they all scroll the active item (wherever the mouse pointer
was last clicked). The user has to click somewhere else if
they want to continue scrolling a page up or down.

David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu

---- Original message ----
>Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 15:51:02 +0100
>From: "Paul Roberts" <hwg(at)roberts200025.freeserve.co.uk>
>Subject: wheel mice and forms
>To: "HWG Techniques" <>
>
>Hi
>
>I have a form with a select option box of countries, it seems
that if you make a selection the box keeps focus, so if the
user tries to scroll then the options get changed.
>i.e
><select name=3D"test">
>                <option value=3D"1" SELECTED>aaaaaa</option>
>                <option value=3D"2">bbbbb</option>
>                <option value=3D"3">cccccc</option>
>                <option value=3D"4">ddddd</option>
></select>
>
>the option box is a list of countries which shipping prices
are worked out from, he user clicks say USA then scrolls and
changes it to Algeria without noticing and so is billed
incorrectly.
>
>has anyone else run up against this, is there anything i can
do about it.
>
>Best Wishes
>
>Paul Roberts
>mail at Paul-Roberts dot com

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