Do you use the little scroll arrows in your OS anymore?

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2005-03-14 10:23am

I was just thinking about this. With the advent of scroll wheels and live scrolling via dragging, who really uses those little scroll arrows on the scrollbars of window anymore? I can't remember the last time I just sat there clicking on one of those arrows to scroll through something. The only time I ever touch the things is if I'm forced to use some POS app that doesn't have support for the scroll wheel.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman · Post by **Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman** » 2005-03-14 10:33am

Infrequently. Dunno', never get used to those scrolling wheels. I always found them way too responsive.

EDIT: actually I'd rather click and drag that one sidebar instead of furiously clicking on those little arrows.

Assassin X · Post by **Assassin X** » 2005-03-14 11:22am

Theres little arrows? <sarcasm>

When i was in a Tech School i happened to have the one mouse that didnt have a Mouse Wheel so i used the bars.... not the arrows though so i guess that close enough.

But i rarley use them unless im trying to fit something into my screen to an exact fit.

Datana · Post by **Datana** » 2005-03-14 11:30am

About the only time I've used them in recent memeory was when I took my GREs. The computer that I was made to use for it disabled nearly everything, including the scrollwheels and draggable scrollbars, and was permanently locked into 640x480x16@60Hz. Navigating was more of a pain than the test itself.

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2005-03-14 11:40am

Never.

I use the scroll wheel, and if I don't have one, either use the keyboard up and down keys or just grab the blue bar and move it manually.

Styphon · Post by **Styphon** » 2005-03-14 02:19pm

heeey... I'd forgotten you could use the arrow keys for that!

now I can be less dependent on my crappy mouse!

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2005-03-14 02:32pm

I think I may have done once upon a time, like with a really small form, or on a really large one, and the mover bar moves too far, and my mousewheel was out of comission at the time.

Post by **Kuja** » 2005-03-14 02:34pm

I switch back and forth at random. Even when reading this thread, I probably swapped about three-four times.

Vohu Manah · Post by **Vohu Manah** » 2005-03-14 02:53pm

I have an app or two that doesn't recognize the scroll wheel.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2005-03-14 04:05pm

Sometimes you have to use the horizontal scroll bar.

Also, sometimes I want to scroll back but not lose my current position in a text file, so I drag the scroll bar up (or down) and when I'm done, I just drag it to the left until it bounces back to the previous position.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2005-03-14 04:30pm

It's what the Page Up / Page Down keys are for, as well as the arrow keys.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-03-14 04:53pm

as i'm on a laptop with a touchpad, the scroll bar is a necessity for me. plus it sometimes find it gives me more control than using a mouse wheel.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2005-03-14 04:56pm

I use them all. All options. Sometimes I feel like pressing a key, others I feel like clicking, others I feel like dragging over text to make the screen scroll, mostly I use the scroll wheel. If there were several different hotkeys I'd probably use them all too.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2005-03-14 06:31pm

I drag the box in between the arrows in the scroll bar when I want to scroll down something fast, but otherwise, I either use that wheel thingy on the mouse, or on some occasions, the arrow keys. However, I almost never click on the arrows themselves.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2005-03-14 10:49pm

Never. Scroll wheel for life.

If scroll wheels don't work, then arrow keys. If they don't work, then I roll my eyes in disgust.

Isil`Zha · Post by **Isil`Zha** » 2005-03-15 04:06am

Stofsk wrote:Never. Scroll wheel for life.

If scroll wheels don't work, then arrow keys. If they don't work, then I roll my eyes in disgust.

I find PgUp and PgDn more effective.

But heck, I can't even remember the last time I used those arrows or that bar....

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2005-03-15 04:19am

Rarely. Usualy the scroll wheel is faster and if I need more speed then there is the scroll bar.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2005-03-16 12:07am

Praxis wrote:Never.

I use the scroll wheel, and if I don't have one, either use the keyboard up and down keys or just grab the blue bar and move it manually.

Same here. I haven't used those arrow buttons ever since I ditched win95 for 98.

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