Re: Two questions - Help files and smooth scrolling

Christine F. Maxwell wrote:
>
> I've been using AbiWord for a while, and have been quite happy with
> it. I like the basic feature set, and the smaller cpu and memory
> footprint than other word processing options on *nix seem to have. I
> only really have two issues that I have just exhausted my resources for
> checking on, so I thought I would ask here... I apologize if the answers
> are obvious and I've just overlooked them somewhere...
>
> My first question is about the documentation... am I simply reading
> it wrong, or are the helpfiles linked to from the help button in the
> program simply wrong about some major things? For example it says that
> the preferences dialog is found in the tools menu
> (http://www.abisource.com/help/en-US/interface/menutools.html), and that
> it has four tabs..Toolbars, Spelling, Layout, and Preference Schemes
> (http://www.abisource.com/help/en-US/interface/dialogpreferences.html)
> yet in the last three versions I've used (and I just upgraded from 2.2.5
> to 2.2.7), the preferences dialog is in the edit menu, and has three
> options... General, Documents, and Spell Checking. Am I simply
> confused, or is this a known problem? If so, are there any reliable
> sources of documentation for this lovely program?

Yep, some of the documentation is wrong due to it being outdated. For
example, the preferences menu item was moved last year (unix-only), but
the documentation was never updated to reflect that change.

>
> My second question is about the smooth scrolling. This is actually
> what caused me to discover the problem in my first question. Is there a
> way to turn off smooth scrolling? None of the menus or dialogs I can
> reach seem to list smooth scrolling, and I can't find any documentation,
> aside from that mentioned in the first problem, regarding it. It's
> becoming a very annoying problem for me, as it freezes AbiWord when
> scrolling quickly past a large piece of text (5 or 10 pages). If I have
> to I'll dig through the source code, and try to change it to default to
> off there, but that would be a last resort.

I think you can turn this feature off with a profile change. Open up
your AbiWord.Profile file and in the custom scheme section (<Scheme
name="_custom_") try adding the following line:

EnableSmoothScrolling="0"

Hope that helps :).
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Received on Thu Apr 28 20:35:02 2005