Zugg Software :: View topic - Discrepancy in default setting for SCROLLING

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 5:41 am

If you don't specify scrolling with #MXP <FRAME> or #MAKEWINDOW the default is NO. However, if you create the window using the Settings Editor, there is no way to specify scrolling, and it defaults you YES. I would be nice if one where able to specify the scrolling when creating the window with the Editor. Short of that, I think that the scrolling for manually created windows should default to NO to be consistent.

Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 7:08 am

I'll add the option to the window properties in the future.

But the reason the defaults are different is because #windows and MXP Frames are really used for completely different purposes. The #WINDOW (#MAKEWINDOW, #CAPTURE, etc) is typically used for capturing text (like for a Tells window) and you normally want scrolling enabled for that. The MXP Frame command is typically used to create a fixed size window for various status information, image map, game map, etc, and typically you want scrolling disabled for that. So there's a reason behind the difference in default.