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[Mattg]

You may already know, but when you have a finder window open and you hold 'Shift' and use the scroll button on your mouse, the scroll action is Horizontal, not vertical.

Yippi!

[Mandrake628]

I'm just curious.  Who here doesn't know this?

Mandrake628

[johntravers]

me

[Shade]

Ok yeah I feel really dumb now because I didn't know that either...but you also can go back through previous webpages by doing this...and forwards.

[Frigidman]

Actually... I didn't know because it's not something I ever do, really, I don't. Basically every window is in list view, with only one or two columns that I care about, and the window adjusted just the correct width so they all show up (with columns being adjusted themselves too). It's the only way to deal with the hundreds of php html and image files that I have too on a daily basis =)

And my game folder, is BIG-ASS icons, all jumbled up in a somewhat organized pile of fun... and no scrollbars on that window either =)

One thing that REALLY annoys the flipside out of me, is that you can't use the mouse wheel to scroll up and down in a list view on the "left side" of the window (you know, where all the little arrows are to flip open folders), when you have that damn-blastid-horse-propogating button-bar closed. Its a bug that has been there since the day the Apple-hose-heads implemented that piece-of-steaming-worm-guts features. Even after every software-update I send in yet another OSX Feedback submission to them about it as well. They are not fixing it out of spite!

[The iMac Man]

Frigidman, on June 30th 2005, 12:51 PM, said:

...Basically every window is in list view, with only one or two columns that I care about, and the window adjusted just the correct width so they all show up (with columns being adjusted themselves too). It's the only way to deal with the hundreds of php html and image files that I have too on a daily basis =)

And my game folder, is BIG-ASS icons, all jumbled up in a somewhat organized pile of fun... and no scrollbars on that window either =)

One thing that REALLY annoys the flipside out of me, is that you can't use the mouse wheel to scroll up and down in a list view on the "left side" of the window (you know, where all the little arrows are to flip open folders), when you have that damn-blastid-horse-propogating button-bar closed.

Ditto!

Man, I feel so much better now knowing that I'm not the only one that anal about their folder organization.  

[Peripherus]

I didn't know about this, either. I appreciate little tidbits like this.  

[Dark_Archon]

I didn't know about it, but there is a button on my mouse that I can click and it makes the scroll wheel scroll the page horizontally instead of vertically.

[Shade]

Yeah with the MX1000 you can scroll horizontally anyways.

[Tomatocow]

Only crazy people scroll horizontally.

[PeopleLikeFrank]

Frigidman, on June 30th 2005, 12:51 PM, said:

Actually... I didn't know because it's not something I ever do, really, I don't. Basically every window is in list view, with only one or two columns that I care about, and the window adjusted just the correct width so they all show up (with columns being adjusted themselves too). It's the only way to deal with the hundreds of php html and image files that I have too on a daily basis =)

Yeah, but if you're doing any graphics work where you have to scroll around an image as you're working on it, then this is a great feature. Too bad it isn't implemented this way on the PC's I use at work. ;P

[Whaleman]

While we're about on practical hints, here's another one: press tab when in Exposé's view all windows mode (F9) or in view application windows mode (F10).

[edddeduck]

If you want to learn keyboard shortcuts and other stuff I found these two apps quite useful.

Key Cue (VT Link) - Just hold down the Command key for a while - KeyCue comes to help and shows a table of all currently available menu shortcuts.

FGShortcuts Remember (VT Link) - More basic, it makes an icon button appear in the Menu Bar for easy access to a drop down menu that shows panels with the most important shortcuts use in Mac OS X environment.

Funny never used the shift shortcut before amazing what shortcuts exist

Edwin

[the Battle Cat]

Tomatocow, on June 30th 2005, 08:44 PM, said:

Only crazy people scroll horizontally.

Tomatocow is absolutely right about that.  We will not tolerate horizontal scrolling on this forum as it is aberrant behavior at it's worst!

[jibclimmer]

aberrations! must... kill... grargh

[the Battle Cat]

You hear that you crazy talking, deviant, side scrollers?  A decent NORMAL person is on your case!  What'll it be?  Therapy or jibclimmer?

[macgabriel87]

yeah whats the nicest thing is that this feature doesn't exist on Windows machines

[Mr.PreacherMan]

the Battle Cat, on July 1st 2005, 08:57 PM, said:

You hear that you crazy talking, deviant, side scrollers?

So does that mean you're going to move this to the "Side-scrolling Platformers" forum?

[Space_Pirate_Killer]

There is no forum, and we don't want one. Are you one of those left-wing side-scrolling beatnicks?

[Mr.PreacherMan]

* sits back and watches tBC go into an epileptic fit because there's a thread referring to a particular game genre and yet he still has nowhere to move it *

Space_Pirate_Killer, on July 1st 2005, 10:22 PM, said:

There is no forum, and we don't want one. Are you one of those left-wing side-scrolling beatnicks?

Nah. I'm just here for the show.