[plt-dev] Scrolling of files with large snips

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Thu Nov 12 21:00:16 EST 2009

This is fixed now.

Thanks,
Robby

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 5:02 PM, John Clements
<clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
> It looks like DrScheme buffers manage scroll positions using the
> line-at-the-top-of-the-screen.  This means that for large snips--those
> taller than the window--there's no way to see the bottom half of the snip,
> because there's no intermediate scroll position between
> line-with-the-big-snip and (+ 1 line-with-the-big-snip).
>
> E.G.:  Evaluate this program:
>
> (require 2htdp/image)
>
> (circle 500 "solid" "yellow")
>
> On the Mac, for screens less than 1000 pixels tall, there appears to be no
> way to inspect the bottom part of the circle.
>
> IIUC, this is not a bug but a change request.
>
> I guess the best question might be this:  is this the kind of thing that
> might be fixed by the re-implementation of wx in scheme, or not?
>
> John
>
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