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Smart Scroll X makes scrolling more convenient
Smart Scroll X brings new scrolling options and enhancements to Mac OS X:
• Super Wheel - smoother, more comfortable scroll wheel action.
• Grab Scroll gives you a Hand tool to easily move any window's contents. It features coasting, just like on the iPhone.
• A "High Gear" for your scroll wheel, so you can have super-fast scrolling when you need it.
• Universal Scroll Keys to scroll without having to reach for the mouse. Scroll keys are the same in every application, giving you fast & dependable scrolling right from the keyboard.
• Adds Scroll wheel support to FileMaker Pro 6 and 7 (as well as live scrolling).
• Adds Live Scrolling and proportional thumbs to AppleWorks 6.
Grab Scroll
Grab scroll works with any mouse or pen or trackpad, etc. It is essentially the same feature as the hand tool available in many graphics programs, but now you can use it for scrolling in any Cocoa application (support for Carbon applications is forthcoming).
• With a single-button mouse, a scroll key lets you turn the cursor into an open hand: hold the first key and tap the second one. To scroll, click and drag with the mouse. Grab scroll mode ends when you release the first key (the 2nd key is used to activate grab scroll, and also to scroll faster when you want).
• With a multiple-button mouse, you just press one of the buttons (select one) to grab the page and slide it inside its window.
• With a graphics pen, you'll probably want to setup the extra buttons so that the first one does a middle-click (so you can use it to grab scroll) and the 2nd one does a right-click. Since the pen lets you move the cursor farther with less effort and more precision than a mouse, you can keep the normal speed at 1x for maximum control and set the other speeds to some high value.
Two extra scrolling speeds are available, in addition to the normal speed. One by holding a user-selectable key while dragging, and the second by starting to drag near an edge of the area to scroll.
Faster Scroll Wheel
You can make your scroll wheel faster when you hold down a user-selectable key, up to 12 times faster. In addition, the speed multiplier you choose is applied on top of the acceleration already provided by the Keyboard & Mouse preference pane: this means you keep the same level of control as you have now, but you can scroll farther and without having to spin the wheel nearly as much.
Universal Scroll Keys
A welcome alternative to always having to reach for the mouse, Scroll Keys are a real time saver for anyone who types a lot!
With automatic scroll focusing, all you do is press a Scroll Key and Smart Scroll X automatically selects and scrolls the correct pane. Scroll Keys also feature their own adjustable scrolling speed, with optional progressive acceleration, so that you can easily scroll multiple pages simply by holding down a key.
Scroll Keys are the same across all applications: no need to remember different keys for each app. Because of this, and because Scroll Keys are conveniently located in the corner of the keyboard, you can even scroll without having to look at the keys.
Scroll Keys are made possible by the new kind of keyboard shortcut used in Smart Scroll X, which doesn't involve hitting letter keys (hence avoiding conflicts with existing key combinations). Instead, you hold down one of the four corner keys and you scroll by hitting one of the others (some keyboards have these keys on both sides, letting you scroll with either hand) :
FileMaker Pro & AppleWorks enhancements
Smart Scroll X brings scroll wheel support and live scrolling to FileMaker Pro 6 and 7. You can now use your scroll wheel mouse for scrolling FileMaker Pro documents. Note: With some layouts you may need to click one of the scroll bars once before the scroll wheel works. A fix will be available in the next version of Smart Scroll X.
AppleWorks 6 users get live scrolling and proportional thumbs, as well as scroll wheel support.
Live scrolling updates the document while you drag the scroll bar thumb. Proportional thumbs show how much of the document is being displayed, and they make it easier to see which part you are viewing. They are also easier to grab with the mouse.
Scroll Next
If a window has two or more scrollable panes, it is the one under the mouse pointer that scrolls. Automatic scroll focusing will select one of the panes for you when you press a Scroll Key to start scrolling, but chances are it won't be able to guess the correct pane every time. To let you scroll another pane without reaching for the mouse, Smart Scroll X adds the Scroll Next feature: hold down Control and hit Shift to select the next pane in the window for scrolling. The mouse pointer jumps to the selected pane too, providing visual feedback.
Scroll Next is quite useful in applications such as Mail for example, where one often wants to alternatively scroll the list of messages and the text of an email.
Note: In the current version of Smart Scroll X, scrolling in Carbon applications only works if the mouse pointer is above the pane to scroll. An upcoming version of Smart Scroll X will remove this limitation, and also enable the Scroll Next feature for Carbon applications.
Other features of Smart Scroll X
Finally, Smart Scroll X lets you select a comfortable scrolling speed for Scroll keys (including optional acceleration), and offers a larger selection of scrollbar arrows positions (still useful from time to time, although with Grab Scroll and Scroll Keys you won't need to click on arrows very often anymore). You do not need to restart applications for these changes to take effect.
New in version 2.4:
• Improved, smoother Super Wheel.
• Various other fixes and improvements.
New in version 2.0x:
• New Super Wheel feature.
• New Coasting feature for Grab Scroll.
• New Grab Scroll feature for Carbon applications.
• Universal binary.
• Includes Rosetta TuneUp, a utility for preventing Rosetta-related crashes on Intel Macs.
• Streamlined preference pane.
• Various fixes and improvements.
System requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
System support:
PPC/Intel
Smart Scroll X is shareware ($19 single user license)
For more information, visit:
http://www.marcmoini.com/sx_en.html
Download:
http://www.marcmoini.com/SmartScrollX_en.dmg
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