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[1] Submitted by: avih on Saturday March 29th 2003

test ;)

[2] Submitted by: warenhaus on Saturday March 29th 2003

is it supposed to be enabled by a middle-click, like in IE? as that doesn't work for me. if yes, i guess it's due to the mouse gesture ext i use: RadialContext.
i'd be happy to be able to use both at the same time though.
(posted this in mozillazine also)

[3] Submitted by: warenhaus on Saturday March 29th 2003

sorry, guess what i meant was autoscroll, i thought the extension would implement both, smooth AND autoscroll.
smooth scrolling with the wheel works fine with your ext.

WinXP, Px nightly 20.march, TBE, RadialContext, TabScroller, Textlinks, NukeImage, Adblock,...

[4] Submitted by: avih on Monday March 31st 2003

I need your feedbacks and help, pls ;)

[5] Submitted by: jiv on Tuesday April 1st 2003

Very nice -- slightly higher CPU usage than the built-in smoothscroll, but still very acceptable. Both are much less intensive than IE's smoothscroll. Also, I find the non-linear scroll to be very pleasant.

I will very probably not use this, though, due to what is probably an unsolvable problem: without vsync, it's ... hard to describe, but 'jerky', as are all other such things. I guess since this is implemented on the outer layers of things, doing the redraws on retraces isn't very possible.

[6] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday April 1st 2003

@jiv
regarding the vsync, i understand the issue, i have no clue at all to sync to the v-retrace...
however, to lower the framerate (on really fast computers it's currently cropped at about 200fps) you can change the timer between scroll events on the last line of the function <function smoothWheelLoop(){>
(and NOT function smoothWheelHandler(e){) from 5 to 20 or so. if you set it to 40 (ms) it will be dropped at 25fps, in which case, the vsync issue won't be an issue anymore.

cheers
avih

[7] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday April 1st 2003

hopefully, in the next version, i'll add a desired framerate variable, with default as 25 fps or so. i'll also see if i can change the implementation to make it look smoother.

also, there's room for improvements in the scroll algorithm, it should be possible to make it smoother between consecutive wheel events. i'll think about it.

avih

[8] Submitted by: jiv on Tuesday April 1st 2003

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll play around a bit.

Another thought: if you ever decide to implement the in-form scrolling, it'd be nice to build on your current configurability and allow it to be disabled. The fact that it always, no matter what, scrolls the entire page (rather than whatever scrollable part you happen to be hovering over) can actually be pretty useful.

[9] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday April 1st 2003

@jiv:
note taken
thanx

[10] Submitted by: Suzy on Friday April 11th 2003

Thank you, this is just what I've been looking for. So far it is working quite well for me.

[11] Submitted by: meso on Sunday April 13th 2003

Nice work. I'm using it on 3-20 and it works well.

Also can you please make the actual xpi available for downloading. I'd like to keep a copy on my computer.

Thanks

[12] Submitted by: avih on Sunday April 13th 2003

@meso:
http://downloads.mozdev.org/smoothwheel/smoothwheel.xpi

[13] Submitted by: avih on Tuesday April 15th 2003

v0.2 test.

[14] Submitted by: SilvereX on Wednesday April 16th 2003

Just tried it on Moz1.3. Gecko's default smoothscroll performs very cool on Linux on a kernel with low-latency patch, but not too good on Windows - it just feels to slow. Smoothwheel is way better on Windows. However, I would like a capability to smoothscroll with PgUp/PgDn/Scrollbar clicking/good old keyboard arrows ;-)

[15] Submitted by: avih on Wednesday April 16th 2003

@SilvereX:
glad to hear smoothwheel is working nicely 4 u. does it work well on linux as well? (only tried phoenix on linux with smoothwheel).

i 1st wanna concentrate on bugfixes, and features only later. it should not be a problem to implement handling of scrollbar arrows and pgup/pgdn/arrows etc.

you can use ALT-Wheel to do pg-up/pg-dn smoothly. check out the configuration section.

thx 4 the feedback.
avih

[16] Submitted by: SwampFan on Wednesday April 16th 2003

Very nice extension - only the second one I've installed that I plan to keep. Great customization features as well, I've already tweaked a few and am scrolling away.

Thanks Avi!

[17] Submitted by: hao2lian on Wednesday April 16th 2003

What is non-linear scrolling and linear scrolling? i.e.
//selects either linear (=0) or various non-linear(=1/2/3) scroll profiles. default is 1.
//possible values:
// 0 : Linear
// 1 : 2nd power (non-linear)
// 2 : 3rd power (non-linear)
// 3 : cosine (non-linear)

[18] Submitted by: avih on Wednesday April 16th 2003

@hao2lian:
linear: the page scrolls at a constant speed for each wheel action.

non-linear: the page moves at a variable speed, thus making it less "harsh" (more gracefull).

if you wanna see it totally linear, you should also disable smoothTransitions. (you can choose preset 5 for a linear profile).

avih

[19] Submitted by: avih on Wednesday April 16th 2003

@SwampFan:
great, thanx.
what's the other extension?? ;)

[20] Submitted by: weo on Friday April 18th 2003

How do you install this via shell??

[21] Submitted by: avih on Friday April 18th 2003

@weo:
i don't know... i took someon