enable mouse buttons 4+5 everywhere

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> Why do mouse buttons 4 and 5 do not work in the text
> window?

Neither Motif nor Xaw have native support for mouse wheels -
it needs to be programmed explicitly by installing an event
handler, explicitly moving the scrollbars etc., in one word,
it's a hassle. By text window, do you mean the help pages?
Implementing this is on my TODO list, but maybe not in the
near future ...

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> By text window, do you mean the help pages?

No, I ment the part of the window where the dvi-file is
displayed (how do you call that in xdvi-speak?). I run xdvi
in expert-mode, thus I don't have a page list. So to use
the mouse wheel, I have to use the keyboard.

Uli

PS. Indeed, this is a minor point. There are other open
items that would increase the usability much more.

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> No, I ment the part of the window where the dvi-file is
> displayed (how do you call that in xdvi-speak?).
main window, drawing area

> I run xdvi
> in expert-mode, thus I don't have a page list. So to use
> the mouse wheel, I have to use the keyboard.

Do you want the wheel to switch pages? With Xaw, you can do
e.g.:

XDvi.mainTranslations: #override\n\
Shift<Btn5Down>: forward-page(1)\n\
Shift<Btn4Down>: back-page(1)

in ~/.Xdefaults, and xrdb ~/.Xdefaults. Somehow this doesn't
work in Motif, where custom bindings for the drawing area
are swallowed by the scrollbars, so it would need to be
hardcoded ...

> PS. Indeed, this is a minor point. There are other open
> items that would increase the usability much more.

Yup, I should probably make a list of things to do next -
I'm probably not going to make huge changes any more, but ...

Which of the things you requested do you think would have
highest priority:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=957982&group_id=23164&atid=377583
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=851545&group_id=23164&atid=377583
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=837906&group_id=23164&atid=377583
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=826863&group_id=23164&atid=377583

Or would it be another request, or something you haven't
submitted yet?

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> Which of the things you requested do you think would have
> highest priority:

Ahh, these are all minor things. What would really improve
the usability are papersize GUI options:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=615613&group_id=23164&atid=377583

Every once in a while I search through several dvi files.
If I encounter one that is of different format or maybe
rotated, I have to open a new xdvi.

Uli

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> Do you want the wheel to switch pages? With Xaw, you can do
> e.g.:
>
> XDvi.mainTranslations: #override\n\
> Shift<Btn5Down>: forward-page(1)\n\
> Shift<Btn4Down>: back-page(1)

Thank you, your suggestion did the thing. BTW, I droped the
Shift, so I can move pages without touching the keyboard.

Uli